All week, Western media, and voices elsewhere, have been conducting a lively conversation about artificial intelligence: from employment and education to autonomous agents, from industrial competition to safety, from extraordinary productivity to the uncomfortable question of who should govern the governors of these increasingly capable machines. This week’s coverage has included both the prospects for work and the promises of powerful technology companies to police themselve

“Test all things.” I no longer regard scepticism as discourtesy. When people exercising great power make grand claims, the citizen has not merely a right but a responsibility to ask: Where is the evidence? So when Prime Minister Andrew Holness told the Caribbean Infrastructure Forum in Miami on September 15 that “Jamaica will become the Singapore of the Caribbean”, I reached instinctively for several grains of salt. Singapore? That is an assertion capable of measurement