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Kamil Askerkhanov27.10.2026

History offers some guidance. After the crash of 1929 and the banking crisis that followed, America’s economic system underwent a radical transformation. The state took on a much more active role in economic life. In 1933 Roosevelt’s administration created the Tennessee Valley Authority, a state-owned corporation charged with developing the energy and infrastructure base of […]

Kamil Askerkhanov26.10.2026

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In recent remarks by Donald Trump and Larry Fink, the boss of BlackRock, there is a striking contradiction—one that, in my view, ought to be read in the context of a looming global financial and structural economic crisis. Indeed, what is now taking shape increasingly resembles the sort of dynamics that preceded the Great Depression […]

Robert Reich11.10.2026

The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena — climate change and AI — pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm. Climate change is already causing floods, wildfires, drought, and record heat. AI agents are already escaping super-secure environments to hack into systems they’re supposed to avoid. Yet Trump […]

Robert Reich22.09.2026

The central issue isn’t which nation will dominate AI. It’s whether we will both maintain human control over it. China and the United States are now competing for AI dominance. But what’s needed is a new mind-set about the meaning of “security” in the emerging world of AI — where the central question should not […]

Robert Reich21.09.2026

Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power? Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data centers, and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human species. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs […]

Kamil Askerkhanov02.09.2026

Perhaps the most interesting question about artificial intelligence today is not what it can do, but how those in power intend to govern a system that is gradually beginning to make decisions in place of the people they appointed to make them. That last point deserves closer attention. For the problem of AI ultimately has […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky20.08.2026

Trump family firm partners with Chinese AI model provider as Washington presses allies to choose sides. A company partly owned by members of President Trump’s family is doing business with a Hong Kong-based provider of Chinese artificial intelligence models — even as the Trump administration prepares to urge dozens of countries to choose between the […]

Alexey Savvateev13.08.2026

The most obvious argument made by technology enthusiasts today goes something like this: if AI really can do a better job of individualized instruction, why not bring that advantage into the mass classroom? Let the teacher conduct the lesson for the whole class while AI simultaneously adapts the learning process to each individual child: explain […]

Robert Reich11.08.2026

Its costs and risks are gigantic. Its benefits, unproven. I’m going to make a proposal today that’s almost certain to get me consigned to the neo-Luddite dustbin of history. But first, let me lay out some facts. Rather than producing jobs, the U.S. economy actually lost 23,000 job in July, according to Bureau of Labor […]

Alexander Rimov28.07.2026

How a mathematician from Nizhny Tagil and ChatGPT found a counterexample that had eluded researchers for nearly thirty years. Until recently, the idea that a language model could contribute to a genuine mathematical discovery belonged more to science fiction than to serious research. That assumption was shattered this week by an unlikely collaboration between a […]

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Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part II.

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part I.

Here’s How to Reduce the Existential Risks if There’s No Other Way

Xi and the Dilemma of AI

The Rise of AI Populism

AI and Power

Trump is Interested in Chinese AI

AI vs. the Human Teacher in the Classroom

Stop AI Before it’s Too Late

An Ugly Graph, a Beautiful Breakthrough

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part II.

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part I.

The sanctions that were never meant to bite

The Narrow Door