Robert Frank Hunter

• New

  Beware the Permanent Periphery

  Anton Leicht

  Most countries will never have frontier AI. They’re the ones who should be worrying.

• All Work and No Play

  The Editors

  Welcome to Issue 15.

• Rust and Boll

  Dylan Matthews

  Anthropic should learn from those cotton-picking socialists.

• Boarding China’s Last Bus

  Zilan Qian

  China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.

Coming Soon

• How Diplomats See the World

  Abi Olvera

• Why We Like Things

  Celine Nguyen

• The Destruction of the Scottish Canon

  Alec Thompson

• Saving Academics from Themselves

  Kevin Munger

• After Work, We’ll Have Each Other

  Clara Collier

• What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)

  Christine Kozobarich

• The Unacknowledgeable Work of Pastors’ Wives

  Elizabeth Van Nostrand

• How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days

  Enlli McAleese

• So You Think You Could Be An Electrician?

  Jesse Smith

• What Will Happen to Indian IT?

  David Oks