Ivo Vegter
Ivo Vegter is a freelance journalist, columnist and speaker who loves debunking myths and misconceptions, and addresses topics from the perspective of individual liberty and free markets.
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Don’t fear the machine. Fear those who want to govern it
AI is the most consequential tool of our age. The greatest danger it poses is not what it will do to us, but what governments will do to save us.
Ramaphosa’s forked tongue on immigration
The president condemns xenophobic violence while validating the very falsehoods that fuel it. The mob he warns against is the mob his own party helped create.
FIFA: the world’s most evil monopoly
It is corrupt. It is criminal. It is tyrannical. And no other private organisation in the world gets special laws to feed its greed.
Artificial intelligence should take our jobs
With every wave of automation, there are those who cry wolf about mass unemployment. Yet it has always been the engine of progress and prosperity.
No, you did not just “break the laws of physics”
The quality of online content is taking a nosedive, and it’s not only artificial intelligence that’s to blame.
The permission slip problem
The Constitutional Court, at long last, struck down the “certificate of need” provisions of the National Health Act.
MAHA’s brilliant plan to defeat cancer
RFK Jr., the former heroin addict, convicted felon and environmental tort lawyer, is worried about chronic disease, but he has an ingenious plan.
No blacks allowed, say Musk and Walsh
The casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in an upcoming film has sent the white right into a righteous fury.
AI is not governable, Mr. Malatsi
Leaving aside the farcical release of an AI-generated AI policy full of AI hallucinations, why do we need an AI policy at all?
Sci-fi grokked AI when your grandpa was still young
Today’s artificial intelligence was anticipated many decades ago. Let’s dive into the literature. When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT upon the world a little over three years