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.
World / Health / United States
President Donald J. Trump delivered what he described as “the biggest medical announcement in U.S. history,” linking the use of paracetamol (known in the United States under the brand name Tylenol) to autism risk and urging Americans to avoid the drug. He also recommended stretching childhood vaccinations over several years and delaying the hepatitis B […]
She remembers the knock on the door like it was yesterday. The sheriff’s deputy, the sealed envelope, the word she’d been dreading: lawsuit. Her son was gone, another casualty in the long tail of America’s opioid crisis. The pills came in bottles stamped with corporate logos, marketed as safe, and sold as profit engines. Her […]
For decades, sunlight has been cast as the enemy—something to block, screen, or fear. Yet beneath the warnings lies a quieter truth: our bodies are wired to thrive on light, and pills alone cannot replace it. As the epidemic of high blood pressure silently claims lives from London to Lagos, the case for measured, deliberate […]
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 […]
For decades, cancer was understood as a disease of rogue cells, growing uncontrollably, feeding themselves through blood vessels and oxygen supplies. But a wave of discoveries is reshaping that picture, and with it, the future of treatment. Scientists now argue that tumors are not only fed by blood, but also by nerves. They are discovering […]
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 […]
Imagine you type out a query: Opinion on Bhutan. Or perhaps: What’s the background of the Prime Minister? You might ask, Where are the good places to take a holiday? Or something more practical: What medicines should I take for a cold? Just as easily, you could turn to weightier questions: Tell me something about […]
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 […]