How AI will reignite woke
Woke politics are a way of signifying that you are high-status – and all of this status anxiety is about to be supercharged by AI
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Saturday
Sunday
America’s next president must study Trump’s golden escalator ride
The question today is: what’s the next unsayable truth?
Tuesday
The architects of ‘AI rights’ are a threat to humanity
Inside the body-denying ideology moving fast towards a technological dystopia
Wednesday
Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams
So long as colleges rely on technology to administer exams, students stay one step ahead
Tuesday
Is the AI boom already over?
Investors would be rash to bet against the US, and in particular its tech industry
The sad decline of painting
Pick up a paintbrush in a state-funded art school these days and you’ll be shown the door
Thursday
What if AI seduces our children?
This can and probably will occur
Tuesday
Could this be the last time I ever have to pay my taxes?
President Trump has proposed abolishing income tax for all Americans who make less than $150,000 a year
Is the West ready to face the challenges of advancing technology?
The rest of the world is playing with a different rulebook
Monday
Black Mirror season seven offers a welcome return to form
The high-class latest installment allows audiences to relish great storytelling, done extremely well
Wednesday
ChatGPT is destroying creativity
Generative AI soaks up a huge amount of computing power – and it’s thirsty
Monday
Recession? What recession?
No one knows how President Trump’s efforts to use American tariffs to force our trading partners to lower theirs will turn out
Friday
Doomers looks at what AI means for the future
Someone — I forget who — suggested the idea of my play as a joke, and I thought it was a good one
Monday
Can an AI friend solve the loneliness epidemic?
The friends that greeted me on Friend.com weren’t insightful or socially adept
Thursday
The Spectator’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
Our staff and regulars help you spread goodwill to all men
Thursday
How long has Hollywood been out of ideas?
What’s changed in recent years isn’t the instinct to take safe bets on already popular content — it’s that those bets are no longer paying off
Monday
Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024
Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels
Wednesday
AI and the new way of war
The killer robots are coming
Summer flavor pairings
How do we work out which foods go together?
Wednesday
Biden uses the gilded cage of the White House to his advantage
It isn’t a basement, but it’ll do
