Novelist Rémy Ngamije reflects on the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI. In her first letter, ...

Decca Muldowney makes the case for an urgent challenge to AI’s power and the fake images boosting the rhetoric of dictators. To combat it we need a robust media to combat misinformation and its ...

Small-scale farms play a crucial role in creating global food security. But farmers of small farms often find themselves facing insecure land tenure, climate risk, unequal terms of trade and ...

Long before today’s boom, synthetic language was already in circulation. In 1966 MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the ...

Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.

In the absence of facts and trusted sources of information, the AI-generated images and rhetoric of dictators circulate freely on a web increasingly breaking under the weight of slop. Only first-hand ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution. As the cost of living crisis becomes ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

Beyond the sensationalist headlines, Obiora Ikoku finds a deeply rooted crisis, made worse by the country’s ruling elite. Nine months ago, Rita Gendaga was preparing for her late father’s funeral when ...