Al Habtoor Research Centre

Political forecasting almost always remains open to doubt, at least until events place it under the unforgiving test of reality. In the series Were They Right?, we take a retrospective path: returning to the analytical record of the past to examine what experts anticipated, then confronting those forecasts with the hard facts of the present ...

Elon Musk’s promises about the future of artificial intelligence derive much of their appeal from offering a single answer to a range of human problems: poverty, arduous work, the cost of living and limited access to services. Smarter machines will produce more, costs will fall, humans will be freed from the necessity of work, and money will eventua...