Four articles exploring the philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence — not as a technical phenomenon, but as a civilisational one. The series argues that AI is a mirror of the collective knowledge humanity has built over millennia: it learned from our examples, and it reflects what we put into it — including what we would rather not see. The alignment problem, viewed through this lens, is fundamentally social rather than technical. You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. The path forward requires us to examine what kind of civilisation we are, and what we are becoming.
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes The homework is ours. But what does the homework require? The previous article argued that AI alignment is social alignment — that if we want a mirror worth looking into, we must…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. If AI is a mirror of civilisation — trained on what we have thought, said, written, and done — then the alignment problem…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes We built something and then pretended not to recognise it. When you talk to an AI, you are not talking to an alien mind. You are talking to a mirror — a…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Science excels at periodic phenomena — orbits, waves, cycles. We build technology on them because we can predict them. But there are phenomena in the universe that aren’t periodic yet aren’t random…