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We’re watching as our civilizational bus is being driven full-tilt toward the cliff’s edge of environmental collapse, and the people driving the bus keep insisting that the steering wheel is an illusion, the legend of the brake pedal is a Communist plot, and any attempt to turn the bus or slam on the brakes is irresponsible fantasy.
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
The battle is not lost, however. As the philosopher Albert Borgmann wrote in his 1984 book “[Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo23186480.html),” it is precisely when a technology has nearly supplanted a vital domain of human meaning that we are able to feel and mourn what has been taken from us. It is at that moment that we often begin to resist, reclaim and rededicate ourselves to its value.
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
The most powerful people in the world are optimists. Their optimism is not helping.
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