Mark O'Connell

How can we just go about our business while Gaza's overwhelming horror unfolds within our field of vision?

If the makers of its new ad were trying to come up with a neat metaphor for Silicon Valley’s destructive presence in the culture industry, they could hardly have come up with anything better

If I were a novelist looking to dramatise capitalism, this story would be hard to resist

I am tempted to say that it is impossible to imagine the suffering of six-year-old Hind Rajab in her final hours. But I don’t know that that’s true. What’s true, perhaps, is that I can’t face imagining it

Does it matter if the paragon of the scientifically-optimised existence is actually kind of a jerk in real life?

While Silicon Valley doomers worry about an existential threat to humanity posed by AI, they ignore the nightmarish and destructive uses to which it is already being put by the Israeli army