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The Economist
April 22nd 2023
Contents
Contents continues overleaf
On the cover
The world this week
6
A summary of political
and business news
Leaders
9
Artificial intelligence
How to worry wisely
10
Ukraine’s
counteroffensive
Waiting for the order
11
Financial bedlam in
Bolivia
On the brink
11
Sudan and the curse of
civil war
Climate, crime and the
conflict trap
12
Banks
The prize of size
14
Carmaking
Great wheels from China
Letters
16
On economics and
business, the rice crisis,
cyberwar, cycling in
London, the Beatles
Special report:
The car industry
A difficult new world
After page 42
Essay
17
Artificial intelligences
The technology of
AI
need not be world
ending to be world
changing
Britain
21
Absences from school
22
The woes of the
SNP
23
Voter
ID
rules
23
Emergency text alerts
24
Stubborn inflation
25
Road pricing
26
Bagehot
Englishness
Europe
27
The coming Ukrainian
counteroffensive
28
Ukraine’s inflatable
weapons
29
Italy’s
EU
struggles
30
Greece’s elections
31
Charlemagne
Annalena
Baerbock
United States
33
What next for Fox News?
34
Quantifying abortion
35
Tiny trucks
36
The Daniel Perry case
36
Religious freedoms and
work at
SCOTUS
37
Counting Christians
38
Lexington
Detroit is
working again
Middle East & Africa
39
Sudan’s slide to war
41
How to ask for bribes
41
IsraeliArab tourism
42
The Saudiled war in
Yemen
The Americas
43
A crisis in Bolivia
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Something that
an employer can cut and
that an employee really
values,
page 60
Rapid progress in
AI
is arousing
fear as well as excitement.
How worried should you be?
Leader,
page 9
.
In a special
Science section, we examine
how large, creative
ai
models
work, the risks they pose and
what capabilities they might
gain next,
page 69.
Looking at
the impacts of the computer
browser, the printing press and
psychoanalysis could help
prepare the world for
AI:
essay,
page 17.
China’s approach,
page 49.
How businesses are
experimenting,
page 62
Ukraine’s game plan
The next
few weeks may shape the
country’s future—and Europe’s:
leader,
page 10
. Its Western allies
want success—but not too
much,
page 27
Why civil wars are lasting
longer
Blame complexity,
criminality and climate change:
leader,
page 11
and analysis,
page 53.
Sudan in crisis,
page 39
The myth of English identity
If nationalism is on the rise, no
one has told the English:
Bagehot,
page 26
A special report on the car
industry
After page 42.
The folly
of shutting out Chinese
carmakers: leader,
page 14.
Japanese car firms are now
playing catchup,
page 45
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April 22nd 2023
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Asia
45
Electric cars in Japan
46
India’s twowheeler
revolution
47
Reforming Uzbekistan
48
Banyan
Asian land reform
China
49
The challenge of
AI
50
Frustrated young people
51
Stealing Taiwanese fruit
52
Chaguan
The meaning
of “derisking”
International
53
Why civil wars are
lasting longer
Business
57
Breaking up
professional services
58
Apple in India
59
Lithium’s price crash
60
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