Policy Insights is Prospect’s membership platform for organisations looking to shape the policy agenda and contribute to ...

Our list of Top Thinkers is intended to spotlight people whose ideas are shaping the world in which we live—and many of this year’s nominations tick that box. As the Prospect editorial team (and some ...

In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...

To explore this issue, we can turn to a very different vision of AI, powerfully articulated 65 years ago by JCR Licklider, a leading computer scientist and psychologist. Licklider deserves the ...

That last phrase, though, should prompt anyone who remembers how things actually used to be to stop and ask whether the Trump tsunami truly did arrive from out of the blue. There was, after all, ...

It’s against the backdrop of AI prophets like Kokotajlo that Princeton University computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor released an important, if much less hyped, paper titled “AI as ...

The obvious answer to “why” this is happening is “climate change”. But the cause of this lurching from flood to drought and back again is a hugely important climate statistic that most people have ...

On this week’s Q&A episode, Alan and Lionel discuss their most difficult interviews. They also discuss why journalists are no longer sent out to cover council meetings and whether that has an impact ...

PIs work for various companies, but many also offer services to the public. These services include tracking down former partners or finding out if a partner is being unfaithful. Researchers estimates ...

There is no doubt that Farage is brilliantly successful at spooking his rivals. He has led a one-man party with a mission of making a mess of other parties. Brexit, his career cause, has brought on an ...

In preparing to help the woman die, The Last Resort had consulted lawyers over how to comply with Swiss law, which prohibits euthanasia for selfish or malicious motives. They had expected the police ...

The biggest sign will be vote shares, not the tally of seats gained and lost. Not only are there fewer contests than normal; boundary changes mean that seat figures will be even less useful. For many ...