Prospect

📕 Our latest issue just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 For our cover essay, Philip Ball argues that the “AI could destroy humanity” story has been imposed by Silicon Valley itself—and it’s time to challenge it: prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…

“A positive takeaway from the current rash of elections is that democracy isn’t dead yet, even in places where it has been under massive assault from a combination of populists, overweening plutocrats, authoritarians and warmongers”, writes Andrew Adonis prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…

AI-generated fiction is threatening the publishing industry, but writers are “starting to fight back”. Ian Rankin on why he’s suing Anthropic and living in “weird times” prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…

“My life has had some tremendous difficulties and sadnesses, but I feel that over the past 30 years I have built the brain I always wanted to have”—read Naomi Alderman’s diary in Prospect prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

“Watching the 1958 Dracula at the premiere, it was striking just how much clarity and quality the restoration had injected into the original footage”, writes David Barnett prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

The common feature of a number of recent elections is that democratic fundamentals have—so far at least—survived serious attempts at destabilisation, writes Andrew Adonis prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…

Arab parties are on a historic 19 seats so far. But can the opposition to Netanyahu unseat him? prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…

In an era of anxiety and rising authoritarianism, “literature is the antidote to apathy, because it helps us to care,” says Elif Shafak prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…