ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS SECRET CONSEQUENCES, by Seymour Hersh, Sep 12 2025

Part one of three in a series on Kate Crawford’s ‘Atlas of AI’

Viewers watch humanoid robots play piano at the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, on September 11. / Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

I’ve been traveling a lot recently and in Venice last week I wandered into an architectural exhibit celebrating a prize-winning project called Calculating Empires by two academics, Kate Crawford of USC Annenberg and Microsoft Research and Vladan Joler of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. Their exhibit, spread over dozens of large boards, depicted the growth of technology and power since 1500.

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THE END FOR ZELENSKY?, by Seymour Hersh

Jul 18, 2025 | Washington wants the Ukrainian president to leave office—will it happen?

In fall of 2023, Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander in chief of the country’s armed forces, gave an interview to the Economist and declared the war with Russia had become a “stalemate.” It took three months for President Volodymyr Zelensky to fire him. The general, who is the most popular public figure in Ukraine, was named ambassador to London a month later and has served there with distinction, if quietly.

Zaluzhnyi is now seen as the most credible successor to Zelensky. I have been told by knowledgeable officials in Washington that that job could be his within a few months. Zelensky is on a short list for exile, if President Donald Trump decides to make the call. If Zelensky refuses to leave his office, as is most likely, an involved US official told me: “He’s going to go by force. The ball is in his court.” There are many in Washington and in Ukraine who believe that the escalating air war with Russia must end soon, while there’s still a chance to make a settlement with its president, Vladimir Putin.