HeyJaredCarne Ross
Understanding power, conflict, and the systems beneath the news
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The UN General Assembly: Burnham, Trump, China and controlling AI (which the UN will not achieve) (opens the original)
It’s too late to stop AI (opens the original)
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We can blame the feckless tech bros who have allowed their creations to run out of control. We can blame governments and other authorities for failing to address this emerging crisis.But the nasty truth is that there are deeper, structural, commercial and geopolitical (and, perhaps most pointedly, technological) reasons why AI will not be effectively regulated, and thus controlled.This is of course a longer discussion, but this is a short explanation.You can see these arguments developed in my e
How to understand the world (opens the original)
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Catastrophe and Renaissance (opens the original)
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There are now significant and worsening threats to the very survival of human civilisation. But governments are not solving them and some are barely discussed. What can be done?IntroductionThe list of risks will not surprise: widening conflict, nuclear weapons, climate, AI, political fragmentation and polarisation. Some are less well known or, at least, less well noted: the bubble in world stock markets, and the increasing vulnerability of banks and, as a result, the financial system to a 2008-s
How Power Works: what connects the Ceuta 'crisis', Nolan's Odyssey and Morocco? (opens the original)
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Last week, tens of thousands of migrants entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north African coast causing a widespread outbreak of anti-migrant hysteria and closing of borders across Europe. Meanwhile, Chrisopher Nolan’s film, The Odyssey, sweeps the box office and is mentioned as ‘Oscar material’.There is an unreported connection between these two seemingly disparate events. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consid
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