Tag: ai and society

  • AI Governance Begins Where the Hype Ends

    AI Governance Begins Where the Hype Ends

    Artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative technology waiting somewhere beyond the horizon. It is already reshaping science, education, healthcare, labour markets, media systems and political decision-making. The real question is therefore no longer whether AI will matter, but who will have the capacity to understand, shape and govern it. The preliminary report of the…

  • Aiphobia: Why We Fear the Mirror, Not the Machine

    Aiphobia: Why We Fear the Mirror, Not the Machine

    The term aiphobia is a compact neologism for a fear already circulating under names such as AI phobia. It is built the way aiciety builds its words — by fusing artificial intelligence with something older and more human, in this case the Greek phóbos, fear. It names the unease that rises in a person the…

  • Zurab Kharitonashvili: The Thinker Who Heard the Machine Speak Before It Had a Voice

    Zurab Kharitonashvili: The Thinker Who Heard the Machine Speak Before It Had a Voice

    Some thinkers become important only in retrospect. During their lifetime, they stand slightly outside the established categories: too speculative for the engineers, too technical for the philosophers, too philosophical for the institutions that employ them. Their work remains obscure until the future develops the machinery required to make it appear prophetic. Zurab Kharitonashvili was such…