Artificial intelligence and the digital systems on which it is based represent a total environment — the world, plain and simple — in which machines produce culture rather than human beings. The humanistic challenge lies in shaping a way of inhabiting this (digital) world, begetting culture through practices of love that enable each individual to […]
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical offers theological and humanistic insights into the potential and risks of artificial intelligence for human dignity. It is also a declaration of the “dream of a new modernity,” in which the Catholic Church, nations, peoples, and international institutions collaborate to create ways of inhabiting the world that are worthy of […]
Dear Mr. Thiel, We don’t know each other, and to be honest, I was hesitant to write you this letter. However, a friend of mine who is intrigued by you — not as a venture capitalist, but as a human being — convinced me. Sometimes friends can see things you don’t see, and people with […]
There is a providential link between AI development and the drop in birthrate. Fewer children in better health and better education need more machines, and the Earth can’t have too many people. AI may be somehow providential. In about 150 years, the world’s population went from 800 million to 8 billion, but the feat is […]
The challenge posed to America by China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) system is profound—it calls into question the U.S.’s overall approach to confronting China. DeepSeek offers innovative solutions starting from an original position of weakness. America believed that by monopolizing the use and development of sophisticated microchips, it would forever cripple China’s technological advancement. […]
China might be off to a good start in the Year of the Snake. Three recent events could set a positive tone for the next twelve months: AI, Myanmar, and Hong Kong. The future remains highly volatile because of Beijing’s adversarial relationship with Washington, an open war in Ukraine, and massive instability in the Middle […]
