Steven Boykey Sidley

It was clear from the start of the Israeli strikes on Iran that they had been meticulously planned (for well over a year, according to

I had many things I wanted to write about this week − stuff happening all over the place: AI, crypto, tech, energy, Ukraine, the Middle

On 2 May, Financial Times writer Robert Armstrong used the term TACO in an article, defining it as “Trump Always Chickens Out.” He was referring

More than a year ago, I mentioned in an article that I had stopped using Google Search entirely. I had switched to a then little-known

Among the many anxieties that have bubbled up in AI’s wake since ChatGPT launched in November 2022 (and ushered in the dawn of GenAI, or

This week’s announcement of a trade agreement between the US and China has opened up a rift among commentators. One side says that US President,

Recently I have been giving a lecture titled “We’re All Gonna Die: Unpacking the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives Around AI”.  The title is meant to be taken

There are two narratives bouncing around the airwaves. The first is that almost everyone who is interested in environmentally friendly cars now dislikes Musk (because

The volume of political news over the past few months has been deafening. Mainly coming out of the US, of course, but everywhere else too.

Free speech and its somewhat more expansive cousin, free expression, are slippery beasts (as we know). Laws erected to protect them are not impermeable −