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Measuring the economic impact of AI
Oped, Published on 24/10/2025
» Is AI transforming the economy in any real sense, or is the promise of rapid growth mere hype?
Net the big crooks
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/01/2025
» Re: "Cop course for Chinese investigated", (BP, Jan 4).
The hazard of lower interest rates
Oped, Published on 20/06/2024
» When interest rates decline and stabilise, financial-market participants tend to take on greater leverage and risk. The challenge for regulators, then, is to prevent those risks from becoming systemic and causing a broader economic crisis.
Election Commission must get new Senate poll right
Editorial, Published on 05/05/2024
» The Senate election will start by the middle of this month, with the race shrouded with ambiguity and confusion. While the appointment of a new higher chamber is touted as part of democracy, members of the public remain in the dark.
OpenAI's Q* is alarming for a different reason
News, Published on 05/12/2023
» When news stories emerged last week that OpenAI had been working on a new AI model called Q* (pronounced "q star"), some suggested this was a major step toward powerful, humanlike artificial intelligence that could one day go rogue.
Dam threatens World Heritage status
Oped, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 14/09/2023
» Seated in a four-wheel drive vehicle, I could see a few big trees on the edge of Khao Yai National Park. Crossing one creek after another, I learned how they help mitigate fast-flowing waters from flooding towns further downstream.
Unlocking AI's potential for everybody
Oped, Published on 18/08/2023
» Artificial intelligence is moving fast. People are using generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to build new services and perform existing tasks, and the underlying technology itself is advancing quickly. As the Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence observes, this wave of adoption could well yield significant productivity gains, after almost two decades of lackluster growth. Every day brings news like Google's recent announcement that its AI has helped American Airlines reduce contrails by 54%, reducing each flight's climate footprint.
Time runs short in India's climate crisis
Oped, Published on 09/08/2023
» 'I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan. As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt. This is a global crisis, it demands a global response," wrote UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his tweet at the end of his two-day solidarity trip to Pakistan in September last year.
Expose the culprits
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/04/2023
» Re: "App won't end pollution", (Editorial, April 18).
Just sensational
News, Published on 17/04/2023
» Re: "'Seven days' not enough," (Editorial, April 14).