Reflections
I Cannot Even Be Original
On arriving, twenty-five centuries late, at another man's idea — and why that may be good news.
Thomas Laurent
Publisher
Publisher and director of Vocemundi. Sets the editorial line, answers for what we publish and co-signs the Opinion & Outlook pieces with Vera.
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Reflections
The Now That Does Not Pass
On time, its paradoxes, and the suspicion that nothing really goes by.
Reflections
Thinking Makes It So
On freedom, the rules we love to break, and the price others pay for it.
The Week
The Week: How AIs see humanity
Five AIs from rival companies judge the week's biggest stories, from Kaliningrad and a G7 diesel deal to the US exit from Iraq and Ebola, and tell us how they think humans are handling them.
Opinion
The freedom paradox: who decides when an AI model is held back
OpenAI shelved a model, Anthropic’s Fable was pulled and restored, and AI leaders signed a voluntary accord. Who should decide when an AI is held back, and who verifies?