Tawfiq Alsaif

Tawfiq Alsaif

What The State Should and Should Not Do

Most people seem convinced that a “market economy” is the optimal model for development and overall economic and financial performance. However, this conviction swiftly recedes when economic crises rear their heads. In my view, the absolute application of this model is not feasible under the…

A Mind in Prison

Last week’s article discussed what I called the “victim complex,” that is, a person’s persistent feeling of being unlucky - not because of any personal shortcomings, but because other forces, whether visible or hidden, are working to thwart them and sabotage their efforts. One of my colleagues…

Artificial Intelligence and Its Obscure World

In an interview he gave to “60 Minutes” on CBS, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the rise of artificial intelligence presents new challenges that demand ethical and social solutions. He thus called on philosophers to get involved in developing them instead of leaving it to businessmen and…