The missing signatures
UN General Assembly week: twenty-two leaders call for an institution able to act on the frontier and the three countries that host the labs do not sign, the companies ask the …
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Every week, critical commentary anchored in the developments on the AI agenda.
Magnifica machinae: Leo XIV asks who owns the machine
The first encyclical on artificial intelligence does with data and algorithms what Rerum Novarum did with the factory: it does not ask how to use them well but whom they belong to. …
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The pause and the questionnaire
The week the frontier announced it would slow down and the market did the arithmetic, while UNESCO presented a readiness questionnaire in Riyadh: two ways of governing the same …
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What it costs not to surrender: MIT's report on AI and education, read on another budget
MIT documents "cognitive surrender" and answers with oral exams, portfolios, mentoring and more undergraduate research. Every one of those recommendations is paid for in teaching …
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A private company's Slack
The week the risk of extinction jumped from online forums to front pages, to the US Senate and to an interview in Buenos Aires: a threat that by definition includes all of us, …
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Eating the seed corn: Terence Tao and the usefulness of what now looks useless
Commentary on Terence Tao’s video about the paradox of accelerating science with AI: why his final point —the defence of curiosity-driven research and of the community that …
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