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Given the structural constraints on AI arms governance, what is realistically achievable, what is the cost of what is not achievable, and what should societies demand now while the window for norms remains open?
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Pressure-testing the AI militarization ratchet thesis against historical arms control successes, current governance efforts, and structural differences that may make prior precedents misleading
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Autonomous weapons systems and AI-driven strategic decision-making are advancing faster than international governance frameworks can adapt. The competitive pressure is self-reinforcing: no state can afford to fall behind, which accelerates deployment, which raises the stakes, which accelerates...
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If the verification function of credentials is undermined while the gatekeeping and signaling functions persist, does the system evolve into something useful, calcify into a pure status marker, or fragment into competing verification systems — and what does each outcome mean for the people...
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Are credentialing systems collapsing under AI pressure, or are they durable institutions whose non-verification functions sustain their relevance regardless of whether AI can replicate the competence they certify?
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AI can pass the bar, write production code, produce medical diagnoses, and generate publishable research — yet the credentialing systems that gatekeep economic access continue to operate as though these demonstrations of competence still require years of human training to achieve. The...
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Whether stewardship succeeds, fails, or is complicated by AI moral status, what should humans be building now — in institutions, governance, and self-understanding — to preserve agency, dignity, and relevance in a world they may no longer control?
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Pressure-testing the stewardship assumption against alignment research progress, structural pressures toward non-stewardship outcomes, and whether AI moral status changes the obligations involved
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Is the expectation that advanced AI will serve human interests a reasonable engineering goal, an unsupported projection of human values onto non-human systems, or a necessary fiction that sustains public cooperation with AI development?
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AI companions, therapists, tutors, and conversational partners are becoming emotionally competent enough that growing numbers of people are substituting them for human relationships — not because they are deceived about what they are talking to, but because the AI interaction is more patient,...
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If AI-driven attention extraction is structural and intensifying, what combination of regulation, system design, and individual practice can preserve the human capacity for self-directed attention — and is preservation the right goal, or must we build new frameworks for autonomy in an...
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Empirical scrutiny of AI-driven attention extraction — testing whether it degrades human autonomy beyond what prior media technologies caused, or whether human adaptive capacity renders the concern another technopanic