We’ve been here before On the afternoon of May 6, 2010, the global financial system stared briefly into the abyss. At 2:32 p.m., the U.S. stock market began a precipitous, unexplained defiance of gravity. In a matter of minutes, nearly $1 trillion in market value…

The rapid development of AI is a huge challenge to attempts to keep Earth systems within planetary boundaries. This challenge is exacerbated by the revelation that most companies appear to have no idea of the environmental costs of their own AI systems. According to a…

The emergence of artificial intelligence from a niche academic pursuit into the mainstream phenomenon we see today presents a broad array of risks. Yet, as profit motives and techno-optimism drive development at breakneck pace, we are sleepwalking into a very uncertain future. I have been…

I have two words for President Trump. No, not those. Trump never tires of accusing Canada of “ripping off” the United States. And of course, there is a trade deficit between the two countries. But no one ever seems to mention the huge population difference,…

In her attack on net zero, Badenoch left much unsaid. Listening to her policy renewal launch, I was struck by what she didn’t say about net zero. For example, she said: “Cheap abundant energy is the foundation of civilisation”, but forgot to say that the…