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A milestone!
FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history
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The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market
High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present
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Forget about the (human) parents
Meet the cyborgs
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The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier
Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists
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The deficient animal: artificial by nature
And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion
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Genuine writing in the digital age
An inconvenient effort worth pursuing
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The AI chips race (part II)
Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack
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The AI chips race (part I)
How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events
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The internet is in need of a transition
What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food
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Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
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Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
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The Indian Stack goes global
Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?
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Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?
Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity
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The future of inflation and interest rates
A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy
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Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?
Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.
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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm
Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?
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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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Learning to waste
All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management
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Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
8
-minute read
We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
13
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
5
-minute read
Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
10
-minute read
The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
10
-minute read
The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
5
-minute read
Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
14
-minute read
Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
6
-minute read
The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
15
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Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
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