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Have we passed the point of no return with AI?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/06/2023
» 'Sometimes I think it's as if aliens have landed and people haven't realised because they speak very good English," said Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' (Artificial Intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will become "things more intelligent than us, taking control".
Why capitalism needs leaders with stoic ideals
Oped, Jacob Soll, Published on 23/09/2022
» It might seem like an obscure footnote among the history-making events of 2022, but the year of Queen Elizabeth II's death coincides with the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth.
Free school lunch programmes boosts learning
Oped, Kevin Watkins, Published on 06/09/2022
» The world's governments are gearing up for their own big education moment. At the United Nations Transforming Education Summit during Sept 16-19, they have a chance to tackle a global learning crisis that has been amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and rising levels of child poverty and malnutrition.
Do Russians have war in their blood?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/04/2022
» The geopolitical views of my grandmother, Florence O'Driscoll, could have been summed up in seven words: the Germans have war in their blood. Even as a child I suspected that the world must be more complicated than that, but I never contradicted her. She came by those views the hard way.