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Who Will Control AI?

Decentralized Tech, Underground Arms Races, and Silo’s Call for Inner Transformation As Artificial Intelligence migrates from experimental laboratories into battle spaces and strategic defense doctrines, global anxiety is fixated on a technical dilemma: how do we constrain algorithmic systems? Yet…

When AI Chooses What We Get to Choose

The Economist recently considered a quiet irony of modern travel: artificial intelligence promises a tailor-made journey just as tourism’s viral popularity funnels travelers toward the same suffocating choke points. Rather than directing everyone toward crowded Pompeii, Santorini, or Kyoto in…

The Ball and the Mirror

Letter back to Mark Zuckerberg, who wrote to the whole world in order to look at no one. I return to you your favorite word, that “everyone,” and with it I turn the planet around —from China to America, counterclockwise—…

Beyond Geopolitics: The Cultural Direction of Humanity

In several previous articles, I have explored the idea that many of what we call geopolitical conflicts may have much deeper cultural roots. We tend to understand the world through political positions: left and right, progressive and conservative, democracy and…

The Beginning of a New Technological Era: The Week the Markets Discovered That China Is No Longer Chasing the West

The technology news of the past 48 hours does not amount to a string of isolated events. Taken together, it represents one of the most significant shifts in perception since ChatGPT’s public breakthrough in 2022. As markets react nervously, the…

Who Will Govern Humanity’s New Cognitive Infrastructure?

Humanity faces no shortage of challenges. Wars continue to claim lives, climate change threatens the stability of our ecosystems, and growing economic inequality undermines social cohesion. Now another transformative force has entered the global stage: artificial intelligence. Unlike previous technological…

The Pedagogy of Obsolescence: While China Models the Future in Classrooms, the West Keeps Debating the Inkwell

There is a self-imposed blindness, almost endearing in its pathos, with which Western bureaucracies insist on viewing the development of the rest of the planet. While in our latitudes ministries of education and arm-chair pedagogical committees waste rivers of ink…

The Speech That Could Change the Century: Xi Jinping, Artificial Intelligence, and the Birth of a New Global Governance Project

Interpretive Essay and Critical Reading of a Foundational Document The speech delivered by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference goes far beyond the technological debate. His proposal places artificial intelligence at the…

Jeffrey Sachs: China offers a global vision for AI governance

Jeffrey Sachs, public policy analyst and former senior UN adviser, spoke to CGTN Europe about artificial intelligence as the defining general-purpose technology of our age, with China and the United States emerging as the leading powers.

Phoenix Rising: Women, AI, and the Architecture of a World That Cares

There is a particular quality of fire that destroys completely and, in doing so, reveals exactly what must be rebuilt, and by whom. By Kat Fotovat I have spent over three decades fighting for women and girls, often in the…

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