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Humanity's alignment problem
News, Antara Haldar, Published on 06/01/2026
» It's lunchtime on top of the world again. Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue released two weeks ago has revived the iconic Depression-era photograph of steelworkers casually lunching on a beam suspended over Manhattan. With the city rising beneath them, the image portrays risk as normalised, even glamourised.
Economy will pop with AI bubble
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 07/10/2025
» The old truism that the stock market is not the economy risks underplaying how much today's powerful investment trends could impact the prosperity and lives of the whole country.
Artificial intelligence is not your friend
Oped, Peter G. Kirchschläger, Published on 18/08/2025
» Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI's Sam Altman have been aggressively promoting the idea that everyone -- children included -- should form relationships with AI "friends" or "companions". Meanwhile, multinational tech companies are pushing the concept of "AI agents" designed to assist us in our personal and professional lives, handle routine tasks, and guide decision-making.
Hold Facebook accountable for scams, hoaxes
News, Dave Kendall, Published on 20/01/2025
» Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to fire his fact-checking team has opened the floodgates to a deluge of scams, hate speech, propaganda and lies. I first discovered how the platform used by 3.2 billion people was being misused when I started sub-editing at the Post in 2017. Every news story about the plight of the Rohingya was followed -- in seconds -- by dozens of crude memes and copy-and-paste hate speech in comments demonising the stateless people as usurpers, animals and even cannibals. The campaign was later linked to propaganda farms run by Myanmar's Tatmadaw military.
Trash for cash
Postbag, Published on 19/01/2025
» Re: "Phuket wrestles with rapid growth as tourist hotspot", (BP, Jan 17).
Stop idling
Postbag, Published on 12/01/2025
» Re: "Give us clear air, not hot air", (Editorial, Jan 11) & "Expert wants to call city a problem area", (BP, Jan 11).
Outside the box
Postbag, Published on 10/01/2025
» Re: "Endless danger zone", (Jan 8) & "New Year road toll", (BP, Jan 6).
Zuckerberg lifts US content guardrails in bias shift
News, Kurt Wagner and Riley Griffin, Published on 09/01/2025
» It was no accident that Meta Platforms Inc chose Donald Trump's favourite TV news show, Fox and Friends, to discuss its decision to ditch outside fact-checking.
How the world can escape the new Gilded Age
News, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 25/10/2024
» Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history. They also are exceptionally powerful -- socially, culturally and politically. While this is partly a reflection of the social status that our society attaches to wealth in general, that is not the whole story.
The AI assembly line ends with the tech giants
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 22/03/2024
» It's almost impossible for an artificial intelligence startup to build anything as good as ChatGPT, but Inflection was getting there.