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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.

AIs are increasingly perceiving our world, but in order to comprehend it, our user interfaces must operate in reverse.

As AI rapidly reshapes our world, narrow, single-view thinking risks mistaking part of the picture for the whole.

A project to turn nuclear warheads into safe electricity was astonishingly successful in the post-Cold War era. Could it happen again?

Consciousness is not the “hard problem” that philosophers say it is.

Scientists working on synthetic “mirror life” have come to realize that, if created, it could pose an existential threat to life on Earth.

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude.

Teacher Li, a new species of dissident, is paving the way.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.