Will This Article Kill You?
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. —John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Meditation XVII). Can Just Seeing Something Kill You? There…
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How AI Can Change Your Mind
Last month, Microsoft made a move to license GPT-3, a powerful artificial intelligence model built by OpenAI, a company founded by Elon Musk. The move has focused renewed attention on…
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Karl Marx in the AI Age
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.—John F. Kennedy Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who…
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What Happens When Meaning Goes Away: A Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homo Deus”
Humanity has made tremendous strides in reining in plague, famine and war in recent decades. Take just one example: poverty. Since 1990, on average, with each passing day, there are…
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In Defence Of Change
We are currently living through a phase transition in the West: economically, demographically, technologically, culturally and environmentally, inter alia. Economically, millions of traditional jobs have been wiped out by new…
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The Future of Democracy in the AI Era
The dark forces of global politics—illiberalism, populist nationalism and protectionism—have recently reasserted themselves and threaten to subvert liberal democracy and the rules-based world order. These fundamental sociopolitical currents pose challenges…
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Transhumanism and the Death of Human Exceptionalism
Every few decades, a new ism comes along that many people see as a threat to the bedrock principles of Western civilization. Communism was one of the big ones, and…
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The Algorithm Who Loved Me
One of the most fascinating episodes of House — “The Social Contract” (S05E17) — tells the story of Nick Greenwald, a well-respected editor at a prestigious press who suddenly loses the…
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