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The Influencers: Linas Beliunas on How to Make Sense of AI Beyond the Hype

Earlier this year, Linas Beliunas asked Claude to write the code for a complete digital bank.
The result was ambitious. It also did not work. He shared the result anyway, with the humour intact and the lesson clear: a convincing AI demo is a long way from a working product.
That habit of testing the claim, and saying plainly what he found, is what makes Beliunas worth following.

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What these five Halloween fiends can teach you about the workplace

Monsters have traditionally been a way to represent common anxieties and open a conversation about how to resolve those worries. Here is a breakdown of how five fell fiends in particular can shine a light on what worries us at work and the strategies to cope with those concerns.

Bird’s Eye: Is It The End Of Maths, Brexit, And Disinformation?

Our columnist Jamie Hose explores the dark side of increasingly clever AI, the vulnerabilities of data centres and shifting political perspectives, with the help of some expert voices.

Five Things You Need To Know About GMAC’s Latest Future Of Graduate Management Education Report

We’ve summarised five key insights from GMAC's latest Future of Graduate Management Education Report

Is AI Increasing The Bias Against Women In The Workplace?

Research has identified a pattern of AI discriminating against women, giving humans even more reason to question the tech's integrity, trust, and ethics.

Is AI Making You A Better Procrastinator?

Procrastinators are rarely idle, according to Stanford philosopher, John Perry. They're often extremely busy, doing almost anything other than the one thing they should be doing. Now you can hand a half-formed thought to an AI agent and tell it to get going. It obliges instantly. It feels as though a great deal of work is getting done. But the thinking still has to happen.

BlueSky Bookshelf meets Hamilton Mann: Trias Algorithmica

Hamilton Mann's new book, Trias Algorithmica: What Code Rules, moves from the integrity of AI systems to the legitimacy of algorithmic power. We spoke to Mann about why a lawful system can still be illegitimate, what independent approval for AI would look like before it reaches the public, and the one question that reveals whether a company's AI governance is real: who can stop whom?

Bird’s Eye: What Does OpenAI And Anthropic Going Public Mean For The Future of AI?

Columnist Jamie Hose explores the recent moves by Anthropic and OpenAI to file IPOs and what this tells us about the future of AI

How Working With AI Could Future Proof Your Career

Will AI replace you in your job? Probably not. But framing AI as a threat or a silver bullet, research suggests might cause more problems than it solves

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