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From Natural Selection to Machine Selection: Human Evolution in the Age of AI

Around 30,000 years ago, when some Asian grey wolves began to tolerate—and be tolerated by—humans, they set in motion one of evolution’s great marvels. Instead of competing with human hunters,…

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How Virtual Friends Can Influence People

It took Dale Carnegie less than three years of hard work to turn his languishing Nebraska sales territory into the national sales leader for his employer, Armour & Company meatpackers. In…

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7 min

Philosophy

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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16 min

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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12 min

Culture & Media

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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11 min

Politics

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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9 min

Science & Tech

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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8 min

Culture & Media

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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AI

From Natural Selection to Machine Selection: Human Evolution in the Age of AI

How Virtual Friends Can Influence People

Will This Article Kill You?

Karl Marx in the AI Age

What Happens When Meaning Goes Away: A Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homo Deus”

In Defence Of Change

The Future of Democracy in the AI Era

Transhumanism and the Death of Human Exceptionalism

The Algorithm Who Loved Me

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