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TWO THINGS should make you consider what artificial intelligence could mean for humanity. One is that those working with the technology are warning about it leading to a catastrophe—human extinction, even. The other is how technological...
IN PLATO’S “REPUBLIC”, society comprises men of gold, who are fit to rule, men of silver, destined to be soldiers, and those of bronze, who become farmers. Since 1959 the world’s top teenage mathematicians (and, more recently, those of great...
AT THE START of the decade, if you asked the bosses of South Africa’s firms to name the biggest problem facing their country, most would have said electricity. Relentless blackouts were crushing the economy. These days another subject is at...
THE WORLD’S largest civilian fleet of bullet-proof cars roams Brazilian cities. Security guards with automatic weapons patrol posh shopping centres. Armed robbery, carjacking and murder dominate the news. Despite violent crime having...
