Open Dialogue Research Journal
It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing their jaundiced visions upon humanity in the name of a utopia that is just another word for self-enrichment. In resigning from Anthropic, […]
China’s economy is pulling in two directions at once, and July’s data makes the split harder to ignore. On one side, household spending is barely growing and the property sector remains locked in a multi-year collapse. On the other, factories are running hotter than ever, with high-tech manufacturing surging at […]
Christine Lagarde doesn’t typically frame central bank speeches around geopolitical vulnerability, but her address in Vienna this week did exactly that. The European Central Bank president argued that Europe’s growing reliance on American and Chinese artificial intelligence isn’t just a competitiveness gap – it’s a strategic exposure that could hand […]
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously […]
Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]
In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, an industry that predates the Renaissance is quietly facing a very modern stress test. Italy’s Parmigiano Reggiano producers rely on a financing system built around vaults – literal “cheese banks” – where wheels of the cheese age for one to three years or more before […]
The world is entering a period of profound uncertainty. Political upheavals, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, and geopolitical realignments are converging to create a historical moment unlike any experienced before. Many of the assumptions that guided policymakers, scholars, and societies throughout the twentieth century are becoming increasingly unreliable as humanity encounters […]
AI-assisted infowars could psychologically sever the former USSR’s Turkic populations from Russia. FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov warned during a recent meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services that “The West seeks to disrupt integration processes and undermine stability in CIS […]
The growing influence of private technology companies inside the U.S. defense establishment has entered a new and potentially transformative phase. At the center of the latest dispute is Palantir Technologies, the controversial but highly influential software company led by CEO Alex Karp, which is now challenging the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence […]
They are a disagreeable bunch, with disagreeable ideas to match. The querulous brats behind the drive for technological servility and plugged in stupidity were always going to scrap over which dystopian vision they most prefer. Elon Musk thought he was onto something hounding OpenAI and its current CEO Sam Altman […]
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