A prescription for AI 'mainlined into the veins' of government is a bad metaphor for a dangerous policy

“DeepSeek R1,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared last week, “is AI’s Sputnik moment.” And as Sputnik – in its original 1957 instantiation and in its subsequent and repeated invocations – has...

"All that was once directly lived has become mere representation" (Guy Debord)

Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.

The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism.

How AI is reshaping research and the research environment