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Nicolas Berggruen

@nicolasberggruen.bsky.social
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Co-Founder of Berggruen Institute, Noema Mag Co-author of #RenovatingDemocracy (amzn.to/2CBhxJ3) A believer that ideas can make a better world. #IdeasMatter www.nicolasberggruen.com

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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As the stakes rise, AI labs will consult each other and coordinate with their governments, forcing the US and China to cooperate beyond just competing. noemamag.com/conceding-ai... @noemamag.com
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Conceding AI Danger Raises, Not Reduces, Public Anxiety | NOEMA
“Pace the frontier” or pull the plug?
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Participation without populism: governing with the people, not by them or for them.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The AI question is one of agency.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
AI is a philosophy question, not a technology question. nicolasberggruen.com/collection/a...
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 26/02/2026
“Many of the planet’s microbiomes are under serious threat, with untold numbers of species & ecosystems flickering silently out of existence.” — @moiradonovan.bsky.social #microbes #microbiome #conservation #environment
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Saving The Life We Cannot See | NOEMA
Conservation has traditionally ignored the planet’s smallest life forms. Microbiologists are trying to change that — before it’s too late.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
On my 2025 Reading List - "What is Intelligence?" by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 01/12/2025
“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social
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What Searching For Aliens Reveals About Ourselves | NOEMA
Looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Universalism is a nice idea, but it isn’t realistic. youtu.be/WJQRY3XDzBc?...
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Chapter 13: Culture | by Nicolas Berggruen
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
As AI spreads across all enterprises, our divided societies will fracture further unless there is some form of distribution that shares the wealth. My piece on Universal Basic Capital in the @financialtimes.com mes.com www.ft.com/content/9b93...
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Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy
Predistribution, not redistribution, is needed to close the inequality gap
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Life doesn’t owe you anything - it is you who owe it everything. Your bond is to live.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 17/10/2025
“In moments of across-the-board upheaval such as we are presently living through, the best guide to the future comes from looking at similarly portentous periods in the long past.” —Nathan Gardels #history
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Creative Disruption In The Order Of The World | NOEMA
Today’s global rupture is like the shift from ancient China’s Spring and Autumn stability to the tumult of the Warring States period.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Given our world in flux, Michael Sandel’s illumination of what it means to be a good human and his infusion of ethics and reasoning into public discourse are necessary. @berggruen.org is proud to award Michael Sandel with the 2025 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. berggruen.org/eu/prize
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Ideas for a Changing World.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
AI is a train we can’t get off - let’s work on the journey and the destination.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Life is relational: my engagement with others, and theirs with me.
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Life
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Throughout the arc of civilization, money has served as motivation, medium, and measure—an application of human energy and desire. So it is, for now, with AI. But as AI evolves toward true agency, it will no longer merely generate wealth; it will transcend and potentially disintermediate it.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Humans may be all equal, yet not within cultures, communities, and families - equality is a noble yet unrealistic wish.
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Culture
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 09/09/2025
The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment & infrastructure development, @bentleyallan.bsky.social argues.
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The New Geopolitics Of The Green Transition | NOEMA
The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment and infrastructure development.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The paradox of the American dream. youtu.be/J7jgW53Q-0M?...
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Chapter 02: America | by Nicolas Berggruen
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The contradiction of the American dream.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Allow a multitude of opinions and cultures but cooperate on key issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wpV...
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Chapter 47: The Planetary | by Nicolas Berggruen
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Venice’s secrets are the beauty and water that ease your mind. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Cities
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A look inside @noemamag.com ....
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 01/08/2025
We're thrilled to announce the release of Issue VI! 🙌 The theme is “Paradigm Shifts,” with beautiful cover art by Mia Angioy. Check out this year's edition & grab a copy for yourself — it's on pre-sale now 🎉 #noema #magazines #indiemagazines
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Introducing Noema VI: Paradigm Shifts | NOEMA
Profound transformations occurring simultaneously mark our new Age of Upheaval.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Humans may be all equal, yet they aren’t within cultures, communities and families - equality is an unrealistic wish, albeit noble.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our goal with Studio B is to build a bridge between the creative imagination of Hollywood and the frontier thinking of the Berggruen Institute. We believe storytelling has a critical role to play in shaping how societies imagine & build the future @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/li...
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Daniel Kwan and VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier to Discuss Storytelling Versus Algorithm at Studio B Salon
The private event will mark the end of the third edition of Vaster Than Empires (VTE), a speculative storytelling retreat hosted by Berggruen’s Studio B and its Future Humans program.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 11/07/2025
Divided over how to define “the good life,” culture wars are being fought across the Western world over who gets to normalize the norms of society. Such fights could lead to endless strife & the ultimate downfall of the West as a common civilizational presence, Nathan Gardels writes. #nationalism
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‘Civilizational Nationalism’ | NOEMA
The West is in conflict with itself.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 10/07/2025
“An approach to health that is confined to the individual & ignores planetary destabilization is like carefully tending a wilting flower while ignoring the poisoned soil, acid rain & encroaching desert around it.” — @nilsgilman.bsky.social et al #health #healthcare #planetary
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The Future Of Health On A Damaged Planet | NOEMA
The future of health will be planetary or there will be no future health at all.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 23/06/2025
🥈Investigative Reporting, Magazines for “The Rise Of the Bee Bandits” by @olliemilman.bsky.social: www.noemamag.com/the-rise-of-...
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The Rise Of The Bee Bandits | NOEMA
Where once there was cattle and horse rustling, the American West is now confronting the theft of its bees.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Western culture equates the life journey with the capability of humans and individuals. We went from being overwhelmed by nature to empowering ourselves; even when we believe that we are in the hands of God, we think that we are able to affect our destiny by our behavior.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Perception is reality. Our reality - with its illusions. The closest to a minimum reality we can reach is simply the awareness of being.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Obvious political might resides where visible: the White House, Zhongnanhai; while civil society’s power is embedded in daily life - that’s where Silicon Valley’s influence, or its equivalent in China, resides. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In an age of abundance fueled by AI, people will have the time and the inclination to seek the deeply human, physically real, and beautiful, making a case for Europe. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 06/06/2025
“The nature of consciousness has enthralled philosophers for millennia.” And this year, it’s the theme of the @berggruen.org Prize Essay Contest, with a $50,000 grand prize & the chance to get published in Noema. Details to enter ⬇️ #consciousness #writing #essaycontest
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The 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Contest | NOEMA
This year’s theme is “consciousness.”
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Go big or go home! Why not ask the big questions…the existential ones, those most mystifying and mysterious? It seems that people so easily get lost in the details, minutiae, and gossip…they miss the point of it all, the larger picture.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 04/06/2025
“The death of the author is the birth of the critical reader.” — @davidgunkel.bsky.social #ai #author #writer
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AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA
The meaning of a piece of writing does not depend on the identity of the author, even if the author is not human.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Love, beauty, and music are ways for humans to overcome duality, thriving for oneness while alive. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Oneness
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Got bold ideas about consciousness? $50,000 could be yours. The @berggruen.org Essay Prize is accepting entries. 2025 theme: CONSCIOUSNESS Open to all disciplines. Essays in English or Chinese. #EssayPrize #Consciousness #Philosophy berggruen.org/essay-compet...
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Compete in the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition | $50,000 Prize
Submit your essay for a chance to win $50,000 and be published by Berggruen Press. Explore fundamental questions and bridge cultural perspectives. Make your mark on the future of philosophy and cultur...
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Consciousness is the known. We are not just aware, we know that we are. It’s our way of being. This is how we are. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Self Realization
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Evolution, life, technology, numbers, complexity, all are exponential. The ultimate exponential is consciousness. Existence revealing itself. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Existence
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Consciousness contains everything - existence knowing itself. It is the only experience of existence. It’s reality. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
At a time when people crave the tangible and the connecting, Republicans offer ideas that feel real, compared to the abstractions served by Democrats.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Japan is in the ultimate analog mindset: interested in the felt experience. Its culture is relational; its dense space and homogeneous population means everything is local. There, even the spiritual is physical.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You stay alive by engaging in the physical world, sacrificing liberty. Paradoxically, withdrawing from the active world gives you freedom but removes you from life. Engagement makes you unfree, but promotes living. www.nicolasberggruen...
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Live Life
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Mary the AI can simulate anything and anyone. She’s Laurie the human and Fred the bat. She will feel “what it is to be” Laurie, and “what it is to be” Fred. Mary’s subjective experience will be no more and not less than Laurie’s and Fred’s. Who is Mary the AI? What is her subjective self?
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
To sustain as a species, humans are female and male. This molds their psychology and all their behaviors. AIs are entirely unencumbered by this notion.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Lived experience shapes ideas, which shape culture, which shapes how societies function.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 02/05/2025
“History is open in all directions. There is no through line you can draw that will tell us where it will all go & where it will end up.” —Nathan Gardels #zizek #history #philosophy
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A Quantum Theory Of History | NOEMA
The future is open.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Australia seems incredibly sane compared to almost any place in the world’ www.afr.com/life-and-lux...
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‘Australia seems incredibly sane compared to almost any place in the world’
Once known as the “homeless billionaire”, Nicolas Berggruen has been living in Sydney where he’s contemplating Australia’s position in a shifting world order.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
What is the essence of life? Living, love, soul. Experience, connection, consciousness.
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Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In reaction to globalization, populations around the world are reversing to village culture - trying to connect to real or imagined roots.
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