metazine

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.

When the most patient, well-read, emotionally responsive conversationalist in the world is always available, what will we still need from one another?

Complex systems can engender the opposite outcome of intentions.

As humanitarian funding collapses, the global system for dealing with refugees is coming apart at the seams.

Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?

AI and drones are changing the scope, scale and speed of battle.

First, send in the robots. Only then, the humans.

From architectural traditions to ancient courtship rituals, evidence of animal cultures is overwhelming but underacknowledged.

AI promises to help us find common ground. But democracy was never meant to resolve our disagreements.

Democrats, Republicans and Big Tech are converging on the idea of a public stake in AI wealth.

Awareness of the relationality of all being is a response to the planet in crisis.

“Gray zones” were meant to describe places on the brink of war. Increasingly, they define the entire world.

How finfluencers prey on economic desperation.

His “Magnifica Humanitas” encyclical calls AI innovation to account.