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How the loneliness epidemic extends to the young and harms their wellbeing

Are we heading toward a future of artificial intimacy or a revival of real-world connection?

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The Battle of Stacks (part 2)

A deep dive into the battle’s origins and the titans who shape it

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min

The Battle of Stacks (part 1)

How digital superpowers redefine the political order

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Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

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Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

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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

11

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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

14

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The AI chips race (part 2)

Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack

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The AI chips race (part 1)

How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events

9

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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

12

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Is Open Source AI a sham?

Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices

12

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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

10

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The robots among us

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

10

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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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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

14

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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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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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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?

How the loneliness epidemic extends to the young and harms their wellbeing

Are we heading toward a future of artificial intimacy or a revival of real-world connection?

The Battle of Stacks (part 2)

A deep dive into the battle’s origins and the titans who shape it

The Battle of Stacks (part 1)

How digital superpowers redefine the political order

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

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

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion