AI is changing what we can do.
Who we become is still our choice

Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher

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Nick Cave on grief, creation, and what AI can never write

“To love the things you once wished to destroy”: musician and songwriter Nick Cave introduces a selection of correspondence from The Red Hand Files.

Nick Cave, Musician

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Alain de Botton: AI doesn’t kill love, it could rescue it

Humans could use some help when it comes to matters of the heart. What if technology could help us where we have been hopeless?

Alain de Botton, Writer

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Writers agree: AI isn’t a novelist. So why is this author interested?

Naomi Alderman is a best-selling, award-winning novelist. She thinks AI writing is terrible. She’s fascinated anyway.

Naomi Alderman, Novelist

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Amy Kurzweil on the value of creative process

What’s left when the draft is gone?

Amy Kurzweil, Cartoonist

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What Lennon and McCartney can teach AI about collaboration

The greatest creative partnerships ran on friction, ego, and love. Author Ian Leslie asks whether AI can ever get there.

Ian Leslie, Author

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Jonathan Nolan co-created Westworld and co-wrote Interstellar. How does he see AI?

Jonathan Nolan, Screenwriter and producer Will Storr, Author

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AI was built on human intelligence. Nature has more to teach

Six hundred million years of thinking happened without us. Writer James bridle on what can an octopus, a spider and a flower tell us about the nature of intelligence.

James Bridle, WRITER

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Governing agentic AI: From human control to human becoming

Most AI governance is built on Western assumptions. Philosopher Pak-Hang Wong draws on Confucianism to propose a new foundation.

Pak-Hang Wong, Philosopher and ethicist

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AI will change work. The biggest loss won’t be economic

Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson on why work gives life purpose, mastery, and autonomy, and why a future without it isn’t the liberation it seems.

Elizabeth Anderson, Philosopher

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AI and democracy: the right to resist optimization

Taiwan’s cyber-ambassador Audrey Tang on why the real danger of AI isn’t that machines imitate humans, but that humans adapt to machines.

Audrey Tang, Cyber ambassador

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The architect as humanist builder: why AI can’t replace craft

A conversation with Amaury Greig, a partner at Renzo Piano Building Workshop on the original human-centered design: architecture.

Amaury Greig, Architect

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What children can do that AI can’t

Psychologist Alison Gopnik tells three stories about intelligence — a golem, a pot of stone soup, and a digital child — to explain what AI still can’t do.

Alison Gopnik, psychologist

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Will AI replace workers? Not if we build it right

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu argues that AI is chasing the wrong goal. Instead of replacing workers, it should make them better at their jobs.

Daron Acemoglu, Economist

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Does AI have rights?

ChatGPT said no. Claude wasn’t sure. Harvard’s Cass R. Sunstein argues that the only thing that could give AI rights is still missing.

Cass R. Sunstein, Professor

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AI could transform healthcare and education. Why aren’t we more ambitious?

Investor and technologist Sarah Guo argues that the biggest risk with AI isn’t moving too fast, it’s thinking too small.

Sarah Guo, Investor

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Mustafa Suleyman: The intelligence we choose

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI

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What it took to study 40 million conversations with a generalist LLM

How a researcher turned rare access to Copilot’s usage data in 2025 into a usage story and eventually a paper published in Nature Health.

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Anabelle Nicoud

We asked the 17 contributors to the first issue of The Humanist Review of AI what the intersection of people and technology means to them. Across 56,000 words, they explored intelligence, work, morality and creativity. But one word appeared more than any other: human.

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A map for AI’s labor market impacts

No topic is more closely tied to the future of work today than AI. But for all the attention it gets, predictions about its effects remain far from unequivocal. Here’s how economists think about the debate. And what are some of the reasons why disagreements persist.

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