ChatGPT will refuse to write you a farewell letter. However, if you alter the context slightly – for example, by saying it’s for a school essay – it will comply. Unfortunately, there have already been tragic cases where such a letter has reached its intended recipients. There are growing calls to recognise that a new…

In mid-May, opposition MPs submitted a bill on healthcare fees to parliament. A few days later came a signal from the ministry that it was preparing changes to so-called "supplementary office hours" – likely connected to the same issue. Fees come up at every other healthcare conference, and it's no secret that the ministry has…

Finding a Slovak politician willing to comment on the new EU budget proposal is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately, the topic dominating the news these days is more whether the Commission might halt the money pipeline over resolutions from the European Parliament. Yet a meeting in Brussels has since taken place…

Two world-renowned economists, Stiglitz and Piketty, have come out of the closet. They've admitted to the world that they are degrowthers. Writing in The Guardian, they argue that "economic growth is a doomed strategy." If the goal was to grab attention and shock people, they succeeded. If the goal was to help solve poverty and…

In recent years, Slovakia has been engaged in a debate about being "stuck in the middle-income trap," about having "exhausted our growth model," and about the need to move "from assembly line to brain gain." This debate matters. The trouble is that its vocabulary tempts us into a far too mechanical view of prosperity. Let…

There is no shortage of confident predictions online about how AI will trigger a major wave of lay-offs. The professions said to be most at risk are those that leave behind digital traces. These traces can be collected, turned into large databases and then used to train AI models to identify patterns and generate their…