Our list of Top Thinkers is intended to spotlight people whose ideas are shaping the world in which we live—and many of this year’s nominations tick that box. As the Prospect editorial team (and some ...

“AI as Normal Technology” advances a straightforward argument: AI technologies are not magic. Narayanan has posited that AI will be as transformative as electricity or the internet: we think of the ...

That last phrase, though, should prompt anyone who remembers how things actually used to be to stop and ask whether the Trump tsunami truly did arrive from out of the blue. There was, after all, ...

In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

Part of the answer is that every political movement becomes self-parody once it loses momentum. Morgan Jones’s forthcoming book, No Second Chances, is a deep dive into the sectarian wings of the ...

The hosts also discuss Business Insider axing a fifth of its staff.And after chairing the European Press Prize judging panel for the last time, Alan reflects on his trip to Bari, Italy, and how he’s ...

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions. The former editors also discuss why they left the Guardian and the FT when they did, ...

To explore this issue, we can turn to a very different vision of AI, powerfully articulated 65 years ago by JCR Licklider, a leading computer scientist and psychologist. Licklider deserves the ...

How do you resist the ‘enshittification’ of the internet? This week, Prospect tech columnist Ethan Zuckerman joins Ellen and Alona to talk about artificial intelligence, social media and the state of ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University and personal trainer, whose new book, How Not to Die (Too Soon), is a guide to living ...