Sam Altman and the Shape of the Future
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...
Category: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
SCO Pushes for “AI for Good” at Tianjin Summit
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...
China Bets on Discipline in AI Race, as U.S. Rushes Toward General Intelligence
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...
Strange Loops in AI — Part 2: Catching the Pulse
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...
Superintelligence: Abundance or Drift
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...
Beyond the Black Box: What Kind of Intelligence Are We Building?
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...
Hurtling Down the Tracks: The Express Trains of Convergence
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...
Strange Loops in AI
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,...