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Artificial Intelligence
Europe is transforming into the AI continent by fostering the development and uptake of new AI applications while ensuring that AI remains safe and respect EU values.
Is the future of AI infrastructure in the Middle East? - UKTN
As the world scrambles to implement data strategies, the Middle East appears to be emerging as an ideal beneficiary.
The Future of AI Should Serve People, Not Platforms - The Liquid Frontier
AI has begun to reshape every part of our digital experience. I keep coming back to Kranzberg’s first law of technology: “Technology is neither good nor bad;…
The EU AI Act Is Ready – Interdependent Thoughts
A final draft of the European AI Regulation is circulating (here’s an almost 900 page PDF). The coming days I will read it with curiosity.
Request for Proposals: The Launch Sequence | IFP
Apply to our rolling effort to find, scope, and build the most important projects to prepare the world for advanced AI
March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust
Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy
Building Political Superintelligence
Amidst fears of dystopia, a blueprint for how we use AI to reinvent the way we govern ourselves
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
3: Consulting the Record: AI Consistently Fails the Public - AI Now Institute
Amid the excitement over AI’s (speculative, hypothetical) potential, we have lost sight of the sobering reality of its present and recent past. AI is already intermediating critical social infrastructures, materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality and concentrate power in the hands of the already powerful. It is consistently deployed in ways […]
Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted skeptic of generative AI, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary that proposed criteria for
– Next Frontier AI
Next Frontier AI is run by SPRIND – the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. Think of SPRIND as a state-backed deep-tech fund and company builder: we deploy public money with a venture mindset, take real technical risk and are explicitly mandated to try things that can fail.
