AI asks what a machine can do. Artificial Consciousness asks something much harder: does the machine experience any of it? A machine can accumulate experience without experiencing anything. It can remember what happened, learn from it, reorganize it and change what it does next. All of that can be real. All of it can have consequences. None of it tells us whether anything was actually … Continue reading Conscious Machines?
Why AI Governance Is No Longer About Controlling Outputs, But Entire Systems For a while, the problem of artificial intelligence seemed relatively contained. Models generated answers, some brilliant, some flawed, and the risk could be summarized in a single, almost harmless phrase: “saying the wrong thing.” It was a problem of language, of content, of accuracy. Today, that framing feels outdated. With the rise of … Continue reading Orchestrating Intelligence
… in the AI era. ChatGPT, as many of you, I’ve been using it for over three years. I built a custom assistant on top of it more than two years ago, something I use almost daily, something I know the way you know a tool you’ve shaped with your own hands. It never nagged. It answered, and it stopped. A couple of days ago, … Continue reading The New Infinite Scroll
Back in 2017, I wrote about Sophia, the humanoid robot who became a Saudi citizen. Yes, for those who don’t remember or didn’t know, it happened. It felt absurd, but important. Sophia showed us what happens when machines cross into spaces once reserved for humans. She was theater, yes—but theater that changed the debate. Now, in 2025, the theater has become reality. Albania has appointed … Continue reading From Sophia to Diella
How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5
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