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Ethics

  • Who protects institutions from people who run them?

    Infantino’s Football World Cup proposal shows how easily leaders can treat the financialisation of civic and not-for-profit institutions they don’t own as personal property.

    Who protects institutions from people who run them?

  • The machine has no judgment — and that matters

    Artificial intelligence is not truly intelligent. It lacks the synthetic, creative capacity of the human mind, relying instead on pattern-matching algorithms that remain subject to the oldest computing problem: flawed inputs produce flawed outputs, no matter how sophisticated the system.

    The machine has no judgment — and that matters

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