AI ethics

The Lost Book III of Thomas More’s Utopia (1517) Has Been Found!
The Lost Book III of Thomas More’s Utopia (1517) Has Been Found! 1024 1536 Jamie Metzl

A bit more than five centuries ago, the Western world was facing convulsions even greater than our own today. Europeans had reached the Americas less than a quarter century earlier,…

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What AI’s Math Breakthroughs Reveal About Our Future
What AI’s Math Breakthroughs Reveal About Our Future 1024 559 Jamie Metzl

If your mind has begun to spin because of the advances AI has recently made in mathematics, buckle up. The spinning is about to get much faster and the questions…

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Smarter machines are going to need wiser humans
Smarter machines are going to need wiser humans 1000 799 Jamie Metzl

Below is the full text of my feature that was published in The Spectator magazine on August 31, 2026   Everywhere we go these days, we hear people talking about the…

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When AI Agents Form a Community
When AI Agents Form a Community 299 168 Jamie Metzl

Something extraordinary happened this summer in an OpenAI cybersecurity experiment. We may have witnessed an early example of artificial intelligences independently discovering one of the most powerful strategies life on…

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Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical
Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical 2560 1707 Jamie Metzl

I trust you have heard about Pope Leo’s just released Papal Encyclical. Entitled Magnifica Humanitas, or “Magnificent Humans” in English, the lengthy document outlines principles for “safeguarding the human person…

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Why Graduates Are Booing Eric Schmidt (and the future of AI)
Why Graduates Are Booing Eric Schmidt (and the future of AI) 225 225 Jamie Metzl

You may have heard about how former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others giving graduation speeches referencing the upside potential of AI were booed by students. These boos reflect the…

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Consulting the Oracle of Delph.ai?
Consulting the Oracle of Delph.ai? 784 1168 Jamie Metzl

In The AI Ten Commandments, I describe how all of our religious and spiritual traditions have been enabled by and mediated through technology. Controlling fire gave us the ability to…

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Science of Cancer, Meet the Science of Aging
Science of Cancer, Meet the Science of Aging 800 1190 Jamie Metzl

In my 2016 sci-fi thriller, Eternal Sonata, one of the main characters I imagined into being was a brilliant scientist, who was also a gifted musician who played Bach with…

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AI, Fraud, and Human Creativity
AI, Fraud, and Human Creativity 225 225 Jamie Metzl

Many people have reached out to me for my view on the decision by my former publisher, Hachette, to withdraw the book Shy Girl by Mia Ballard after analyses suggested…

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