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Featured · Caribbean Futures

AI mood boards and robotic archwire bending for Carnival costumes

The archwire-bending brand identity of the Trinidad Carnival has penetrated markets in the Middle East. In Dubai, the world witnessed a quiet handover from craft to machine.

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Education23 May 2026

Failure as essential in the age of AI

The future we are in now belongs to our children. Our fears can become a cage that makes them doubt the very faculty AI most rewards: the willingness to be wrong out loud.

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Critical Theory in AI16 May 2026

AI as an always-on intelligent security fabric

Mythos is a step change in capability — a highly advanced, general-purpose frontier model that does not so much answer questions as listen for them.

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Critical Theory in AI09 May 2026

Selecting agents and shielding your AI chats

No one can shield their AI chats from prosecutors pursuing charges. Conversations with AI assemblages could be demanded by adversaries with the patience of a state.

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Critical Theory in AI02 May 2026

AI gravity and socio-economic operating systems

The future is still about figuring out what questions to ask. This is more important than finding the correct answer to the wrong one.

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Critical Theory in AI25 Apr 2026

The defence of data in the age of AI

Data centres and hyperscale cloud infrastructure are the new victims of war. The substrate of intelligence is also the substrate of vulnerability.

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Critical Theory in AI18 Apr 2026

Screen economies and AI-powered price tags

AI-powered Electronic Shelf Labels are being adopted by major retail chains. These tiny screens turn the supermarket aisle into a real-time market.

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Critical Theory in AI12 Apr 2026

The 100-Model War and shadow AI

The Hundred Model War started in 2023. From Beijing to Shenzhen, China is implementing its frontier strategy at industrial scale.

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Caribbean Futures04 Apr 2026

A regional AI research resource and lab, similar to CERN

AI-generated content is poisoning the internet, making it less reliable to access clear facts. A regional commons could be a counterweight.

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Critical Theory in AI28 Mar 2026

From divine attributes to AI scaling curves

Deep within the glass-walled offices of Anthropic and OpenAI, the quest for the orderly harmony of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe continues.

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