‘A university graduate means an unemployed person,’ write the Chinese on social media. Thus, artificial intelligence is exacerbating the shortage of job opportunities in China, which is insufficient for the 12.7 million recent graduates who will be joining the workforce this year. The government’s efforts to contain the situation are not enough.

Trump dismisses security concerns: “Whoever wins at AI, wins – full stop.” Xi responds with DeepSeek and Qwen, proposing an open alternative to American models and positioning Beijing to set the standards

Amodei, Altman and Musk have called for regulation of the artificial intelligence sector. In any other sector, such a call would already have a technical name: ‘cartel’. But when it comes to AI, most commentary merely adds fuel to the fire of fear. Economic analysis, on the other hand, has a more rigorous task

Climate change, AI genocide, doomsday fascism. No sooner have you pulled that jumper out of the wardrobe than the Silicon Valley exiles are travelling the world to explain that the Big Thing is going to wipe us all out

The issues that emerge: complacency, political correctness, caution, untapped potential. And a touch of unease

Behind every apocalypse there often lie very mundane interests. The call for a slowdown and the spread of open-source models