Adrian Wooldridge

Politics has always been about emotions as well as reason and self-interest. Great politicians such as Winston Churchill have been able to stir our most profound feelings. Great political moments such as Nelson Mandela’s walk to freedom from Robben Island have moved people to their core.

Britain gets ever more difficult to understand. The familiar features of the place right now are the disappearance of political stability, emotional restraint, public order and its Rolls-Royce civil service. “The past is another country. They do things differently there,” was LP Hartley’s memorable opening sentence for his 1953 novel The Go-Between. In today’s UK that applies better to the present.

Politics has always been about emotions as well as reason and self-interest. Great politicians such as Winston Churchill have been able to stir our most profound feelings. Great political moments

Yet emotions can sometimes get out of control, and in so doing drive out reason and damage self-interest.

Politics has always been about emotions as well as reason and self-interest. Great politicians such as Winston Churchill have been able to stir our most profound feelings.

Artificial intelligence is on its way to becoming the greatest grievance-producing machine the world has seen. Economic revolutions have always been followed by powerful backlashes on the part of the aggrieved. In Britain, Luddites smashed the power looms that took their jobs in the 1810s and, in the US, populists raged against the giant companies that reordered their lives after the Civil War. Unless properly handled, the AI transformation will produce rebellions on a scale we have never seen b

ARTIFICIAL intelligence is on its way to becoming the greatest grievance-producing machine the world has seen.

AI môže vyvolať vzburu, akú sme ešte nezažili Všetky dôvody masovej nespokojnosti sú pri revolúcii AI vyhrotenejšie

The Davos set and the MAGA mob are usually like cats and dogs. But when it comes to the relationship between globalization and nationalism, they are as one. They both believe that you must choose between the two — or at least that the more of one you have, the less of the other.