Are there potential benefits to artificial friendships, or is the idea of a mechanical friend sadder or more pathetic than having no friends at all?
- Associate Professor, School of Arts, Western Sydney University
The US president is trying to shift the blame for his failures in Iran – and the Kurds are an easy scapegoat.
The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs.
The cultures that have grown up around technology dominate the way we understand ourselves, our collective existence, and even our place in the universe.
Declaring that we need to regulate technology is far simpler than explaining how we might do so.
En MANIAC, Benjamin Labatut cuenta la historia del “hombre más inteligente del siglo XX” y los límites entre la locura y la ciencia.
In The Manic, Benjamin Labatut tells the story of the ‘smartest man of the 20th century’.
A new book argues our philosophical and intellectual responses to technology have not kept pace with events.
The rise of AI raises the complicated question of how we might guide it towards ethical and political ends.
Irony is linked to the ability to say one thing while thinking another – which means it’s also intrinsic to being human. What does new research into artificial intelligence and irony reveal?
Margaret Atwood’s new fireproof copy of The Handmaid’s Tale protests book banning – and burning. The Venn diagram of those who burn books and those who read them is typically two separate circles.
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