: Three cheers for Greg Fergus, the newly elected Speaker, for his speech on decorum in the House of Commons.
Greenhouse gas emissions are a global issue. It is nearly irrelevant to the climate if Western governments undermine their economies in order to reach net zero, if the rest of the world essentially does nothing. In China, emissions have doubled in less than 20 years as that country takes on energy-intensive industries that net-zero rules have rendered politically unwanted or economically unfeasible in the West.
Such a conceptual shift, focusing on reading rather than writing, reveals the critical thinking advantage that humans possess. AI is not an independent operator; its output depends on a prompt. The final arbiter of meaning is not AI, but independent human readers. The field of physics was revolutionized by the development of quantum mechanics and relativity. In the realm of art, the advent of impressionism and cubism introduced a whole new way of seeing the world around us. Comparable outbreaks of brilliance can be found in all fields of human endeavour.