The 20th century French philosopher Gilbert Simondon believed that humankind harbours a primitive and xenophobic attitude to the technologies it creates. Today, we are surrounded by conversations about acceleration and automation, with the philosopher’s thought offering a uniquely provocative take on alienation in the future.

On the long history and possible future of Europe’s uneasy relationship to American automation.

As agentic AI grows, human verification remains bound by the biological constraint of embodiment. A wide-ranging interview with Christian Catalini, researcher at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

As AI disrupts the balance between effort and reward in writing, shame remains at work, as a hidden mechanism of social control.

AI promises a pornography without limits – and apparently, without imagination. Might the biggest disappointment of AI porn be how boring it is?

Expectations are that AI will automate swathes of the knowledge economy’s workforce. What needs to be true for the AI predictions to unfold?