Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari review – end of days?

The Sapiens author may be a superb narrative writer, but his apocalyptic pontificating about AI stretches credulity

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine

The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth

TikTok meets Tolkien: how the Folio Society attracted gen Z readers

The publishing house is booming thanks to sci-fi and fantasy novels – and a love of artisanal editions

I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered

A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and its lessons about the modern world

Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?

A list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset

The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?

As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?

Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King by Anupreeta Das review – cancel Bill Gates?

An attempt to expose the billionaire founder of Microsoft fails to land a killer blow

On the Edge by Nate Silver review – the art of risk-taking

From card sharps to crypto traders, a statistician asks what we can learn from the people prepared to gamble everything

End of the librarian? Council cuts and new tech push profession to the brink

Staff in England’s public libraries under threat of being replaced by automated checkouts amid budget pressures

James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence

Pivot podcast host Scott Galloway: ‘Tech bros conflate luck with talent’

The US academic on why the Mr Burns caricature of rich people is wrong, the double-edged sword of godlike technologies, and why young people shouldn’t follow their passion

On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational app

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism

The Anxious Generation wants to save teens. But the bestseller’s anti-tech logic is skewed

There’s no doubt about the mental health crisis facing young people. Jonathan Haidt blames our devices – which oversimplifies the problem

Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators

While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income