9+ hour, 24+ min ago  (285+ words) Put the two stories together and a larger picture begins to emerge. AI helps a newcomer find a proof. AI then helps turn a masterpiece of human reasoning into something a computer can certify line by line. The obvious next…...

1+ day, 54+ min ago  (420+ words) A spectre is hanging over humanity: the spectre of superintelligent AI. While governments busy themselves with the mundane work of politics and putting out the fire of the day, the most consequential technological development since the splitting of the atom…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (279+ words) In The Inheritors, Willliam Golding's second novel, Neanderthals utter only a few short words and think entirely with images. A family is disturbed by the arrival of people who are not like them, and who talk in sentences. The two…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (370+ words) Now that MI5 has been called in to protect us from rogue AI systems and Anthropic has opted not to release its Claude Mythos model to the public over safety concerns, it seems that talk of AI erasing humanity is not…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (782+ words) The Spectator Australia Why is a chatbot deciding what books our children read? A school in Greater Manchester has stripped 193 books from its library because they are "inappropriate, liable to upset pupils and thus a safeguarding risk. Among the dangerously…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (989+ words) Every technological revolution replaces the one before it. The loom replaced the spinning wheel. The excavator replaced the shovel. The electric vehicle is replacing the combustion engine. In each case, humans were still the users. Still essential, still employed, still…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (10+ words) China wants robots to look after the elderly'The Spectator Australia...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (706+ words) The Spectator Australia Bot in my backyard Guess who will make work for idle hands? A popular 1960s superhero comic book series which never made it to the big screen, for reasons which will become clear, was Magnus, Robot Fighter in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (306+ words) Nonetheless, modern unreadability doesn't mean that The Wealth of Nations is unimportant. It's one of the most crucial books ever written, ranking alongside those of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Just as they changed how we understand the physical world,…...

3+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (406+ words) Depending on where you stand on AI, 30 January 2026 will go down in history for one of two things. Either it is the day when the AI singularity really began and the robots became conscious " or the day when it was…...