Robots should look and sound like robots. There is no benefit to allowing AI to appear human, and companies will exploit the confusion to demand “AI rights,” further cementing their oligarchical control.

Whether or not it will bring about our extinction, AI clearly risks causing many kinds of catastrophic harms. Why are we giving ruthless private companies such power to shape the human future?

The crypto industry has become a major threat to democracy. We can’t let it continue.

Politicians say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition.

If the new technology is as dangerous as its makers say, great power competition becomes suicidally reckless. Only international cooperation can ensure AI serves humanity instead of worsening war.

The world’s richest man is obsessed with putting Neuralink chips in people’s brains and integrating their minds with AI. He can’t be trusted with this technology.

On forums and blogs, people used to have detailed back-and-forth arguments. Can a democratic society survive if we don’t even bother arguing about ideas anymore?

They don’t produce knowledge, they can’t prevent insider trading, and they turn politics, war, and death into a cash-out.