Democratization
Access, participation, and public deliberation: who decides and who is left out.
Access, participation, and public deliberation: who decides and who is left out.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
Claude formalized the first computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in eleven days. The theorem is not the interesting part: that domain had a cheap, independent, hostile …
The week protecting minors meant identifying every adult, a philosophy journal banned what it cannot detect, and Amazon finished scanning the books it then throws away.
The week the United States asked thirty-five countries to pick a side, and the week both sides stopped for the same reason, for the same two weeks, entirely on their own say-so.
A week of manifestos, because everyone writes manifestos now. Three far-reaching texts —one by a Nobel Peace laureate, one by a philosophy professor, one by Meta’s CEO— each …