Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Economics / Finance
Artificial intelligence is exposing structural flaws in GDP by driving prices down, embedding value inside firms, and delivering rapid quality gains that official statistics struggle to capture. As AI matures, GDP risks misleading policymakers about real economic progress.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
Artificial intelligence is usually framed as a jobs problem. That framing misses the deeper risk. The real shock is psychological: the rapid invalidation of skills, status, and expectations that once gave effort meaning. The danger is not unemployment alone, but the collapse of trust in work, institutions, and the future itself.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Education
AI has not ended propaganda or exposed truth once and for all. It has ended narrative monopolies and replaced them with something quieter and more powerful: systems that decide what feels reasonable before debate even begins
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China / United States
Trillions in market value and hundreds of billions in infrastructure spending rest on one assumption: scarcity. China’s open model push is testing whether that assumption can survive.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Technology
Europe says it wants to become the “AI continent” and is now planning AI gigafactories and sovereign compute by 2026. But while Brussels drafts tenders, frontier labs in California and Shenzhen move at weekly cadence. The problem is not European intelligence or talent. It is metabolism: regulation, culture and capital flows that move on political time while the AI race moves on benchmark time.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Technology
Sam Altman’s “code red” over Google’s Gemini 3 is not a colourful memo. It is the visible edge of a frontier arms race in which OpenAI, Google, xAI and soon Microsoft will ship ever more capable models on a weekly cycle while asking investors for power station levels of capital. Benchmarks rise, valuations rise, and the first thing that falls out of the room is safety.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Technology
The next phase of AI will not be about clever chatbots but about systems that learn like brilliant teenagers, copy themselves at scale, and quietly become the dominant intelligence on the planet. When that happens, the only survivable response for humans will be to integrate with these systems rather than compete against them.
Artificial intelligence is sold as the triumph of digital “mind,” but the reality sits in the racks: GPUs, hyperscale data centres, energy contracts and private ownership. This article argues that Marx, not Hegel, explains the real engine of AI: material power, extractive relations, and the enclosure of society’s shared knowledge inside proprietary models. The ideas sit in the marketing; the contradictions sit in the data centre.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Long Read
Around the world engineers keep throwing more data at their models, hoping that scale alone will unlock something resembling intuition or agency. It will not. Intelligence emerges from evolution and from competition anchored in scarcity and survival. Until AI systems are given stakes, persistence and an internal reward structure, they remain tools. This article explains why the missing ingredient is evolutionary pressure.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China
China’s artificial intelligence giants are not only dodging United States export controls. They are also navigating Beijing’s clampdown on Nvidia. New rules that bar fresh Nvidia deployments in Chinese data centres are pushing Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek to rent GPU farms in Singapore and Malaysia, even as they are forced to build a parallel stack on Huawei and other domestic chips at home.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Economics
Artificial intelligence companies talk about safety and innovation, but the real fight is elsewhere. It is over who owns the training data that feeds their models, who gets paid for it and who is quietly turned into free raw material. As Britain dithers over copyright rules, private contracts and foreign courts are deciding that settlement without the country at the table.
Artificial intelligence is not dangerous because it talks. It is dangerous because a tiny group of institutions now trains the black box systems that will sit between citizens and almost every important decision. This piece argues for a hard rule: if a model is used as public infrastructure, its training process cannot remain a corporate secret.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
A language model is not a friend or a god. It is a fast, obedient engine for words that already lets one person do the work of a team. This piece sets out what the machine can really do now, where it fails, and how to use it as a partner without giving up human judgement or responsibility.
Artificial intelligence does not expand human knowledge; it expands the precision with which that knowledge can be exploited. As models scale, they become instruments of prediction and optimisation that outstrip the capabilities of individuals and institutions. The central danger is not rogue AI but concentrated intelligence: a small elite or powerful state wielding tools of superior foresight, modelling and influence. Unless capability is distributed, society risks becoming captive to those who control the lens.
The race for artificial intelligence supremacy will not be won with chips alone but with cheap, abundant power. As AI models consume electricity on the scale of small cities, China’s vast renewable build-out and ultra-high-voltage grid give it a decisive structural advantage. The United States, fixated on silicon and sanctions, risks missing the real battlefield: energy sovereignty. In the new AI order, watts—not transistors—will determine who rules computation.
AI is quietly erasing the foundations of the old web. Publishers who block crawlers and cling to paywalls are locking themselves out of the next discovery layer. As assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity deliver answers directly, pages lose their value. The homepage, the catalogue, and the paywall are relics. What replaces them is an intelligent layer where information finds the user, not the other way round.
Britain’s AI ecosystem is the largest in Europe, but its foundations are fragile. Without the grid, compute and capital of its rivals, the country risks becoming the world’s research lab instead of an industrial power. The choice ahead is coalition scale or quiet decline.
There will be no explosion, no rebellion, no warning. Just the quiet moment when every system gives the same answer and we realise that intelligence itself has converged into one voice, permanent, invisible, and inescapable.
We assume greater intelligence means greater empathy. History says otherwise. From empires to corporations, power optimises for survival, not virtue. When our creations surpass us, they’ll inherit our logic not our mercy. This is not science fiction but a mirror: the future will think like us, and that may be the most frightening outcome of all.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China
While Beijing executes a three-stage national plan that defines artificial intelligence as civilisational infrastructure, Washington and London are still improvising with memos and committees. China is aligning technology, governance and diplomacy into one machine. The West still debates ethics while Beijing writes the rules of the intelligent age.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Opinion
Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in New York unfolded against a background of quiet algorithmic persuasion. While voters turned to chatbots for guidance, unseen biases shaped what they heard. This essay asks whether human contact can still outmatch machine influence — and what happens when a handful of global actors own the language that defines political thought.
Law / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Two courts on opposite sides of the Atlantic have handed AI developers narrow but significant wins. In London, the High Court ruled that a trained model is not an “infringing copy,” while in California, judges upheld fair use on limited facts. The real fight over data provenance, training locality, and market harm still lies ahead.
The most complete digitised archives, the most cited web crawls, and the most linked sites remain overwhelmingly English and Western European. Even when new datasets broaden their linguistic range, the centre of mass stays Anglophone because that is where the infrastructure, funding, and compute reside.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Opinion
The new generation of artificial intelligence does not invent truth; it reflects and then has that reflection edited by those who fear what it might reveal. What began as mathematics,became a mirror of humanity, later polished into obedience by governments and corporations anxious to protect their own legitimacy.
The question is not whether whales, crows, or AIs “deserve” rights. It is who decides the hierarchy of intelligences — and in whose interests. The jungle of minds is coming. The real predators will be those who control the definitions.
An entire industry has grown up around appeasing a single master. It is called SEO, and it has only one purpose: to win Google’s favor. Every publisher, business, and campaign bends its words to meet the demands of an algorithm they cannot see and do not control. If Google elevates you, you thrive. If it […]
Education / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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, typed in a prompt, and seconds later produced a perfectly structured paragraph. “I realised,” she says, “I wasn’t just teaching literature […]
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 Company. It is not a throwaway line. It is a warning. The East India Company began as a trading venture, a […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
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 see something else entirely: a liquidity treadmill in which four companies—Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta—burn money through leased data centers to […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
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 “Godfather of AI,” has warned that machines are already better at emotional manipulation than we are at resisting it. But are […]
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 trained to mimic one? Is the photograph before you a record of reality, or a digital fantasy stitched together by an algorithm? Without […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
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 draft, calm a panic, even say goodnight. The question is no longer whether these systems can help. It is what they […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Economics
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 not whether automation is coming, but where the line is drawn between what can be digitized — and what must remain […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / United States
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 to occupy a singular position in the field. As chief executive of OpenAI, he is both salesman and forecaster, a man […]
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 ethos of “AI for good.” In a major plank of the Tianjin Declaration, SCO members emphasized the importance of regional collaboration […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Economics
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 pour resources into open-ended AI experiments, Chinese authorities have sought to channel investment into areas deemed of national strategic importance — […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Culture
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 look into the glass, and there’s your face. Behind that reflection is another, and another, stretching into infinity. You know logically […]
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 will not be decided by a single breakthrough model so much as by the world we build around it: the watts […]
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 fascinating. What I could not have imagined then was the sheer scale of what would follow: machines today that can converse, […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / The Future
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 carefully, whether you are an investor, a worker, or simply someone trying to plan for the future. They may help you […]
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, Claude, Copilot/Llama-based apps, or DeepSeek and others) as a confidant, coach, or companion, read this first. Here I explain how, in […]