The Vatican’s Position on Artificial Intelligence
The Vatican’s position on artificial intelligence begins from a premise that is older than the technology itself:...
The Reskilling Fallacy: Why Massive Upskilling Will Not Stop Labor Obsolescence
For years, the most reassuring answer to technological unemployment has been simple: people will be reskilled. The...
Beyond Replacement: The Productivity-without-Employment Paradox in the Age of Autonomous Agents
The debate about AI and work often focuses on replacement: will a machine take this job? But the deeper issue is...
When Protecting the Worker Leaves Them without Work: Minimum Wage and Robots
The relationship between minimum wages and automation is politically uncomfortable. Higher wages can protect workers...
The Great Silent Rotation: Why 170 Million New Jobs Are Not Good News for Everyone
Predictions about millions of new jobs can sound reassuring, but they often hide the reality of transition. New jobs...
The Poisoned Water: Sam Altman, BlackRock, and the Promise of Capitalism without Humans
The image of poisoned water captures a fear at the center of the AI economy: what if the system produces wealth while...
Geoffrey Hinton: The Price of Abundance
Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings about AI are not warnings against intelligence itself. They are warnings about abundance...
Fei-Fei Li: Beyond Language, the Intelligence that Inhabits Space
Fei-Fei Li’s work reminds us that intelligence is not only linguistic. Humans understand the world through bodies,...
Sam Altman: The Ten-Person Billion-Dollar Company
Sam Altman’s idea of a ten-person company generating a billion dollars in revenue captures the radical compression of...
Elon Musk: Work as a Garden, Not an Obligation
Elon Musk’s image of work as a garden rather than an obligation belongs to a larger debate about abundance,...
Dario Amodei: The Silent Tsunami over White-Collar Work
Dario Amodei’s warnings about artificial intelligence point toward a profound transformation of white-collar work. The...
The Caged Beast: Why Anthropic Created a “Doomsday Key” and Only Gave It to 12 People
Imagine this scene You’ve spent years, poured in every ounce of effort, to forge a "master key" capable of opening...