The annals of history in the making
Concerned about the future ramifications of artificial intelligence, Khaled Diab decided to ask ChatGPT some difficult questions about the risks AI poses and how to avert these dangers and make the most of the technology. The bot’s answers were smart but unsettling.
Read moreThe environmental movement has scored remarkable recent successes, but the situation for the climate and nature remains fragile and vulnerable. Overcoming the damaging inertia of business as usual requires the thin green line of activists to be reinforced by the swelling ranks of concerned citizens.
Read moreBy Khaled Diab A new alliance of Italian, Polish and Hungarian far-right parties promises a renaissance that will make Europe
Read moreBy Khaled Diab Rather than humans becoming enslaved by robots, machines have become the new slave or serf class, with
Read moreBelgium has long been written off as a dysfunctional and failing state, yet its response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been surprisingly functional
Read moreBy Khaled Diab The advent of ‘living robots’, or biobots, not only poses grave risks for which we must be
Read moreBy Khaled Diab Islam needs a reformation for Muslim societies to develop and prosper, is one of those rare convictions
Read moreIt is outrageous that the fake news media is not outraged that Donald Trump has been left empty handed at this year’s Nobel awards. This oversight must be rectified next year.
Read moreCloaking devices are the stuff of magic realms and deep-space exploration, not real life. Think again! Making photonic chips invisible to one another could pave the way to computing at the speed of light.
Read moreThe selfie fad has reached epidemic proportions, but we don’t live in more narcissistic times. Selfie-absorption is as old as civilisation itself.
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