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Porcupine Policy

India has much to learn from the current Taiwan scenario. The manner in which China is moving in matters related to that island nation is also indicative of its intent. It is quite possible that, instead of getting into a full scale war like Russia...

The panic about AI stems from the fear that even those who are spearheading its progress will be unable to steer it. FILE PHOTO: REUTERS

Post-Human Desert

The Future of Life Institute’s open letter demanding a six-month precautionary pause on artificial-intelligence development has already been signed by thousands of high-profile figures, including Elon Musk. The signatories worry that AI labs are “locked in an out-of-control race” to develop and deploy increasingly powerful...

Aakar Patel

This is Censorship

On 6 April 2023, the Union government passed new rules, allowing it to identify what it thought was any fake or false or misleading content online related to the government. This would be done by a “fact check unit” set up by the government which...

Dilip Cherian

Reform Losing Sheen

Lateral entry was a much-awaited administrative reform introduced in 2018 as part of Modi sarkar’s larger civil service reform agenda. The noble aim was to bring fresh perspectives, expertise, and efficiency into the government system. The bold experiment is now being seen as losing its...

Trump’s Fate

In an unprecedented case in US history, former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York on charges including hush-money paid to a porn film actor Stormy Daniels in 2016 shortly before the presidential election. That gives a new twist...

Aakar Patel

Our End-state

Ideologies usually have an end-state or a desired place they want to arrive at. Marxists think the State will vanish and the community will replace it. In South Asia, an attempt was made to make mankind spiritually aligned to modernity through the State. This is...

Dilip Cherian

Combating Corruption

The Department of Personnel and Training’s (DoPT) decision to invite retired IAS officers to investigate allegations against serving IAS officers comes at a time when corruption charges and other violations of service rules have been on the rise among the country’s babus. With its eyes...

(PC: AP)

Authoritarian Drift

Last week, the International Criminal Court indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, alleging that he is responsible for the forceful removal of Ukrainian children to Russia. This means that the ICC’s 123 member states now have an obligation to arrest Putin if given...

(PC: Bloomberg)

Crisis & Bailout

The shotgun wedding of UBS and Credit Suisse was hastily arranged in the spirit of ensuring our collective safety. As Swiss National Bank Chair Thomas Jordan noted, Credit Suisse’s size and global network makes it “a global systemically important bank,” and having UBS take it...

Do Or Die

The world is dangerously poised to cross the limit of accepted level of global warming. It is only a few tenths of a degree away from the goal of restricting warming to 1.5 degree C above pre-industrial levels. It means within a decade the world...

 

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