"“To suggest that we democratize Al to reduce asymmetries of power is a little like arguing for democratizing weapons …"

"“It is a common practice of life to focus on the world immediately before us, the one we see and smell and touch ever…"

"Controlling time — whether via the clocks for churches, trains or data centers — has always been a function of contro…"

"From the perspective of deep time, we are extracting Earth's geological history to serve a split second of contempora…"

"In one case, Amazon negotiated a memorandum of understanding with a police department in Florida, discovered through …"

"It’s that the NIST databases foreshadow the emergence of a logic that has now thoroughly pervaded the tech sector: th…"

"What epistemological violence is necessary to make the world readable to a machine learning system? AI seeks to syste…"

"Ultimately, 'data' has become a bloodless word; it disguises both its material origins and its ends. And if data is s…"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fr…"