Robert Low

3 weeks ago | thejc.com | Robert Low

Richard Susskind’s latest book, How To Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed, offers a profound and accessible exploration of artificial intelligence, aiming to demystify AI and focus on its broader implications rather than its operational intricacies. Published in March 2025, the book is the culmination of Susskind’s extensive experience with AI, reflecting his unique perspective as an authority on legal technology and societal transformation. Actually, I didn’t write the above paragraph.

1 month ago | thejc.com | Robert Low

But the 1,536 who obediently registered stayed on in the hope that things wouldn’t get any worse, and for a couple of years that appeared to be the case. In March 1942 Quisling’s administration started to tighten the screws by reinstating a paragraph of the constitution of 1814 prohibiting Jews from entering Norway, which had been rescinded in 1851.

Jan 29, 2025 | thejc.com | Robert Low |John Nathan |Nicole Lampert |Elisa Bray

Drawn to the Promised Land: A Cartoon History of Britain, Palestine and the Jews: 1917-1949By Tim BensonHalban Publishers, £14.99 The Israel-Palestine conflict has never been much of a laughing matter, and particularly since October 7 last year. So you might think a cartoon history charting the four decades of the British Mandate leading up to the birth of Israel in 1948 would not be a very inviting prospect. You couldn’t be more wrong.

Jan 29, 2025 | thejc.com | Robert Low |Shalom Lappin |John Nathan |Nicole Lampert

​ If 2024 should be dubbed the Year of Global Antisemitism, can we expect 2025 to be any better? Most Jews, in Britain and elsewhere, will probably join me in fearing that it won’t. In which case, a new study of the unwelcome new surge in antisemitism is well-timed. Its author, Shalom Lappin, is not an expert in the field but in artificial intelligence: he is professor of natural language processing at Queen Mary University of London and previously held a similar position at King’s College London.

Jan 10, 2025 | thejc.com | Shalom Lappin |Robert Low

​ If 2024 should be dubbed the Year of Global Antisemitism, can we expect 2025 to be any better? Most Jews, in Britain and elsewhere, will probably join me in fearing that it won’t. In which case, a new study of the unwelcome new surge in antisemitism is well-timed. Its author, Shalom Lappin, is not an expert in the field but in artificial intelligence: he is professor of natural language processing at Queen Mary University of London and previously held a similar position at King’s College London.