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Will AI End Humanity?

If there is even a 1% chance that AI could destroy us, should we keep building it? Are we creating machines that will one day outthink humanity? And is the race to dominate AI accelerating us toward a... Continue

Osborne right to be gloomy – politically we’re out of the euro but economically we’re all in this mess together

I promise I am not going soft, but I am beginning to feel a little bit sorry for David Cameron and George Osborne. As a regular attendee of European summits when Labour was in power, I always feel a b... Continue

22 October 2011

Norway still refusing to play the blame game. The benefits of a Daily Mail free land

Just back from a run round still dark but very clean and pretty Oslo. My hotel is opposite the government buildings where on July 22 a bomb ripped through the heart of the city, in part as a decoy for... Continue

20 October 2011

A (very long) essay on political communications, French style

The post has just arrived and in it a very nice surprise, the discovery that Jacques Seguela, one-time adviser to President Mitterrand, now close confidant of President and Madame Sarkozy (indeed he i... Continue

19 October 2011

Blackberry/RIM have mishandled things at every stage – but I still don’t want an iphone

Despite doing all this blogging, tweeting, Facebooking malarkey, I remain something of a technophobe. Though I am regularly introduced when speaking as being 'at the cutting edge of communication' I a... Continue

18 October 2011

The questions do not stop with Fox’s exit. And let’s hope high speed rail not another casualty

It will not have escaped most people's notice that despite Labour being out of power, its senior figures continue to be held accountable whether via public inquiries, a media that sometimes seems to t... Continue

15 October 2011

Fox is the new Coulson

Greetings from Tirana where this morning I met the Opposition leader before doing a seminar for companies on strategic communications, and this afternoon will see the Prime Minister after doing a sess... Continue

14 October 2011

Spouting from the bully pulpit is the easy bit. It is when Dacre is questioned we may get to truth about him

At the risk of offending my extremely hospitable hosts in Skopje (capital of Republic on Macedonia or The Former Yuglosav Republic of Macedonia, depending which side of the long and bitter name disput... Continue

13 October 2011

Labour a lot more relevant than news-comment fused media think

In addition to phone-hacking and all the other dubious practices employed by newspapers, one of the worst developments in our media over recent years has been the near total fusion of news and comment... Continue

12 October 2011

Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Still active in politics and campaigns in Britain and overseas, he now splits his time between writing, speaking, broadcasting, charities and consultancy.