“The evolution of AI presents many ethical dilemmas: we should be alert to threats of widespread unemployment, surveillance capitalism, academic integrity, data harvesting and the development of autonomous weapons,” writes Mane-Kara Yakoubian. According to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research report by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, 50–70% of changes to wage structures in […]

A Review of Luis Bravo Martins’ and Samantha G. Wolfe’s Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype (December 2022) The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel…View Post

“Conditions of work at the tech giants are beginning to seem much less attractive just as those companies are trying to get us all to slip into their avatars—not for entertainment purposes but as part of a gruesome officeverse,” writes Jeremy Ray Jewell for Areo Magazine. A Review of Luis Bravo Martins’ and Samantha G.

“It is becoming increasingly clear that the concept of the metaverse signals little more than the hopes of multinational corporations who want to manipulate labour markets in order to generate profit for investors,” argues Jeremy Ray Jewell. https://areomagazine.com/2023/02/22/the-depressing-new-corporate-metaverse/

“If people appreciated how useful it would be to have more energy, rather than constantly being told that they should use less energy, they would probably be more enthusiastic about contributing to the energy transition,” argue Simon Friederich and Maarten Boudry. https://areomagazine.com/2023/02/21/in-defence-of-a-high-energy-future/

“I have no lofty goal of either normalizing ‘sexual deviancy’ to upset Republicans, or pathologizing the groups I study to upset Democrats. Instead, my aim is to understand what is true about the diversity of human sexuality, with the hopes that such diversity will be better accepted in society,” writes Kevin Hsu for Areo in