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Paul Davis

Reporter · IE

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Aug 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Dr Paul Davis

    Analysis: The big AI worry may not be that it betrays us, but that it does what it's told (opens the original)

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    ISAAC ASIMOV GAVE us the Three Laws of Robotics in 1942, and we have been quietly reassured by them ever since. A robot may not harm a human. A robot must obey. A robot must protect itself, but never at the expense of the first two. Simple, hierarchical, enforceable. The stories built on those laws were almost never about robots breaking them. They were about robots following them exactly, and the consequences nobody had thought through. I believe we have forgotten this. But it is the part that

  2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Dr Paul Davis

    Dr Paul Davis: We're asking the wrong questions about data centres (opens the original)

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    OK, SO NOW we have a national hosepipe ban. Our reservoirs are low, and the number doing the rounds is that Ireland’s data centres drank roughly a billion litres of water last year; seemingly, this is about the same as Sligo town. I think it sounds like a good number and so it lands. I read a piece here in The Journal recently that made an argument I mostly agree with. Yes, the sector is opaque. Ireland has been slow and grudging in transposing its EU reporting obligations, to the point of an in

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