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The intelligence we choose

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO MIcrosoft AI

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AI and democracy: the right to resist optimization

Taiwan’s cyber-ambassador Audrey Tang on why the real danger of AI isn’t that machines imitate humans, but that humans adapt to machines.

Audrey Tang, Cyber ambassador

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AI is changing what we can do. Who we become is still our choice

To understand AI’s effect on moral character, ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah goes back to John Stuart Mill, and the idea that people are shaped by their choices.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher

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What children can do that AI can’t

Psychologist Alison Gopnik tells three stories about intelligence — a golem, a pot of stone soup, and a digital child — to explain what AI still can’t do.

Alison Gopnik, psychologist

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Governing agentic AI: From human control to human becoming

Most AI governance is built on Western assumptions. Philosopher Pak-Hang Wong draws on Confucianism to propose a new foundation.

Pak-Hang Wong, Philosopher and ethicist

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Will AI replace workers? Not if we build it right

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu argues that AI is chasing the wrong goal. Instead of replacing workers, it should make them better at their jobs.

Daron Acemoglu, Economist

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Does AI have rights?

Cass R. Sunstein, Professor

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AI will change work. The biggest loss won’t be economic

Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson on why work gives life purpose, mastery, and autonomy, and why a future without it isn’t the liberation it seems.

Elizabeth Anderson, Philosopher

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Writers agree: AI isn’t a novelist. So why is this author interested?

Naomi Alderman is a best-selling, award-winning novelist. She thinks AI writing is terrible. She’s fascinated anyway.

Naomi Alderman, Novelist

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AI was built on human intelligence. Nature has more to teach

Six hundred million years of thinking happened without us. Writer James bridle on what can an octopus, a spider and a flower tell us about the nature of intelligence.

James Bridle, WRITER