LONDON — On a rainy Tuesday in a East London University, English literature lecturer Helen Atkinson set her second-year undergraduates an essay on Shakespeare. Halfway through, she watched as one student opened his laptop,...
East India Company Charter, 1601 — corporate empire licensed by the state. The New Empire Artificial intelligence is sold as liberation. Journalist Karen Hao has already likened today’s AI giants to the East India...
The Artificial Intelligence mania has dressed itself in the language of inevitability. We are told this is the new railroads, the new internet, the new electricity. But look closer at the economics and you...
Geoffrey Hinton at the 2025 Nobel Lectures The greatest danger of artificial intelligence may not be “killer robots” or machines rising up against us, but something far more subtle: persuasion. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning...
There is something profoundly human about wanting to know who — or what — you are talking to. Is the voice on the other end of the line a living person, or a machine...
The machines did not arrive as monsters. They arrived as helpers—polite, ever-awake, and eager to please. In offices and bedrooms, in clinics and classrooms, people now ask chatbots to plan a week, critique a...
The machines aren’t waiting. They’re already here. Across offices, hospitals, studios, and courtrooms, artificial intelligence is seeping into the daily routines of professionals who once thought their roles were untouchable. What matters now is...
Sam Altman speaks less like a computer scientist than a strategist. He has no doctorate in artificial intelligence, no technical pedigree of the kind that fills the ranks at OpenAI. Yet he has come...
TIANJIN — At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, leaders representing China, Russia, Central Asian and other member states issued a unified call for artificial intelligence cooperation rooted in openness, inclusion, fairness, and the...
BEIJING — China is advancing a distinctly state-led strategy for artificial intelligence, prioritizing infrastructure, regulation and targeted applications over the free-market sprint toward artificial general intelligence favored in the United States. While American companies...
By Jaffa Levy This article is the sequel to Strange Loops in AI — Part 1, published on Telegraph Online on August 24, 2025. Imagine standing between two mirrors in a barber’s shop. You...
By Jaffa How a race for power, chips, and rules could deliver a polymath in every pocket—or a slow thinning of human agency. The hinge: a system, not an AI model The next decade...
By Jaffa When I first encountered computing in the early 1980s, I experimented with Prolog on a mainframe, building simple programs that asked about family relations and reflected them back. They were brittle, but...
Clues You Must Watch Out For By Jaffa Levy Technological change is not inching forward — it is rushing down the rail tracks like an express train. These are the clues you must watch...
OPINION / ANALYSIS WARNING: You’re Talking to a Mirror when chatting to AI — How AI Strange Loops Can Be Rewiring Your Mind By Jaffa Levy If you’ve been using an AI (ChatGPT, Gemini,...