Browsing: Letter from London
Storytelling about risk is a tricky subject. We tend to reach for metaphors we hope improve understanding. Instead, we may just be adding to the…
A frog does not know it is being boiled until it is too late. Lawmakers in London feel the same about artificial general intelligence—the next…
Sir Tony Blair, the former prime minister of the U.K., has argued that the AI revolution is as consequential as the industrial…
VivaTech in Paris is ten years old. In 2016, 45,000 attended the first event. This year, at least 180,000 delegates will make…
Mention of Brazil’s ‘market reserve policy’ is still capable of sending a chill through technology enthusiasts of a certain age. Introduced in the 1970s, when the country…
When the supply of toilet paper started running out back in 2013, the Venezuelan authorities came up with a novel explanation. “95% of people eat…
By design, central banks are cautious. Protecting a nation’s currency and financial stability are serious matters, ill-suited to risk-taking and chancy…
When Demis Hassabis was 6 years old, he remembers his father giving him the age-old reassurance prompt used every day…
There was a simple narrative about Rishi Sunak when he was defeated in the U.K. general election of 2024. The…
When the bombs started raining down on Iran on February 28, many business leaders hoped the conflict would be short and the…