A few months ago, I watched a friend ask an AI chatbot whether she should leave her job. It gave her a tidy pros-and-cons list. It was helpful, in a way. But it couldn’t tell her anything about who she wanted to become — and that’s not a glitch to be fixed in the next model update.... Continue Reading →

I keep coming back to one phrase: phase change. Not just innovation, not just disruption — a genuine shift in the state of things, like water suddenly becoming steam. That’s what we’re living through right now: an AI phase change. And like any phase change, it’s not just about what’s being built. It’s about what we’re... Continue Reading →

What Adler, McLuhan, and Merton would say about the machine we’ve built — and who it’s really for Artificial intelligence does not hurt everyone equally. Where it causes the most harm is in the systems that were already failing people — hiring, housing, policing, benefits, healthcare, surveillance. In each of these domains, AI has a... Continue Reading →

Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) doesn't come up much at the dinner table. He was a Hungarian-British polymath — a physical chemist who became a philosopher of science — and most people have never heard his name. But his work points to a thesis we need right now: AI may be useful, but it cannot replace the... Continue Reading →

There is a question almost no one in the AI industry is asking, and it might be the most important one: Who is this for, and what kind of human life should it serve? Not "What can it do?" Not "How fast can it run?" Not "How much revenue will it generate?" But rather — what... Continue Reading →

The newest papal encyclical and the oldest Christian theologians turn out to be reading from the same page. Something is striking about watching the Catholic Church respond to artificial intelligence. While many respond with either uncritical enthusiasm for new technology or anxious warnings about its pitfalls, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (”On the Safeguarding... Continue Reading →