On a tiny island in the middle of the Aegean, the timeless Greek-German enmity and connection assumes another dimension.
Prometheus dove into the sea with surprising impetus. Fearlessly and (more…)
Author: Amalia Negreponti
Amalia Negreponti has worked for years as a journalist and critic for outlets including the BBC, La Règle du Jeu, Medium, HuffPost, Ta Nea, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Athens, she emigrated to the US in 2013 and now lives in New York as a writer, researcher and strategist. She also red-teams neural networks and writes about consciousness, memory and the genesis of emotion. She is the recipient of a Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a fellowship from the French Foreign Ministry, and has participated in various policy fora about AI, national security and culture, organized by The Aspen Institute, the AJC’s Project Interchange, and Lighthaven.
The Alpha and Omega
Power equals money, and vice versa, used to be a straightforward equation. No longer. The new digital cosmos has made this a very relative concept, transforming what were once purely mercantile products (more…)
Killing people and robots
Is man kind? No. Yes. Some people, sometimes—though I’d be hard pressed to offer any names.
AirBnB’s provocative new ad launched this summer, raised the issue, insisting (more…)
Brave Free New World
Envisage it: a world populated by dogs and dinosaurs; hominids and extraterrestrials; mamoths and butterflies; and all of us humans of course.
That’s our new world, the one we (more…)
Is man kind?
Is man kind?
The news of Cecil's slaying came as I was standing at a bus stop on Columbus, skimming Twitter on my phone. “Go wild in New York” said the ad displayed on (more…)