Recursive self-improvement may be AI’s real inflection point: systems that begin to rewrite the conditions of their own evolution. Alignment may no longer be enough. AI may need an evolutionary constitutionalism. My new Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/albertom...
Algorithmic capitalism thrives on endless scrolling, emotional passivity, and fluid identities. Its deepest paradox is this: human intelligence is nudged to give up attention just as attention becomes the essential resource for AI.
We’re living through a major transition, yet there is a subtle collective denial of its scale. AI, the weakening of the 20th-century world order, and the fertility crisis all fit this pattern. This denial is systemic and leaves us unprepared for a future which is already here.
I strongly support AI and tech innovation. But sometimes I wonder whether immersion in virtual worlds serves the interests of those who want to anesthetize people’s behavior and opinions in the physical world.
What if the democracy–technology conflict recasts mediation as a “latency” defect? My latest Substack article: open.substack.com/pub/albertomen…
The EU is mocked for ‘monitoring’ crises instead of acting. I don’t agree at all. In a world led by impulsive, egomaniacal amateurs who confuse noise with power and serve only themselves, restraint is what adults do.
With the advent of AI, the cognitive divide is shifting from who has information versus who doesn’t, to who can frame problems for AI models versus who can’t: identifying what matters and crafting effective prompts. Human knowledge work becomes scaffolding for AI cognition.
What if consciousness — human or artificial — were not something that appears in the world, but the very act through which the world observes itself?
My new Substack post explores this idea: open.substack.com/pub/albertom...
If AI agents display functional continuity, they should be framed by the law of representation, not treated as substitutes. My latest piece on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/albertom...
The new frontier of computational democracy goes beyond universal access to the power needed for individual AI use.
Allocating finite computational resources means setting priorities and every choice of purpose also means exclusion, a process that must be democratically guided.
The voice mode of next-gen AI devices should act as a distributive multimodal router, invoking other multimodal capabilities whenever needed to enrich the core conversational experience and seamlessly interfacing with legacy devices to deliver content too complex for voice alone.
Returning to the conceptual parallels between LLMs and legislative drafting: how “next-token” logic can sharpen bills, align incentives, and make impact assessments truly measurable. I unpack it all in my latest Substack: open.substack.com/pub/albertom...
Exploring whether differential privacy can bridge the GDPR’s data-minimisation rule and the EU AI Act: open.substack.com/pub/albertom...
Is AI Driving Fertility Change—or Simply Reacting to It? Rethinking the Feedback Loop Between Virtual Companionship and Birthrates open.substack.com/pub/albertom...
Generative AI thrives on pattern.
Human discourse drifts into improvisation. An inverse correlation?
A brief reflection
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A hidden risk in AI adoption for knowledge work: top senior professionals quietly resist reasoning models, seeing them as threats to their expertise. The challenge isn’t tech—it’s symbolic. AI should be framed as a lever, not a rival.
‘In the beginning was the Word,’ the Gospel of John begins. An idea that may offer insight into how LLMs operate: for them, too, the word brings form to emptiness—not thought preceding speech, but speech generating the appearance of thought. The token precedes the concept. #AI #philosophy
I expect that AI will ultimately deepen the tension between biological inheritance and digital inheritance, reshaping our concept of personal legacy and shedding new light on global declining fertility.
The proper functioning of a democratic system does not require the affirmative adherence of individuals to alternative doctrines, but is sufficiently preserved where individuals are induced to perceive the intrinsic unsustainability or impracticability of their own positions.
The ultimate political move on the global geopolitical chessboard would be the election of a U.S. cardinal as Pope.
A potential emerging risk is the delegation of epistemic responsibility to AI: as artificial intelligence improves in accuracy and fact-checking, humans may grow increasingly complacent in verifying the truth of their own claims, unwittingly turning to AI to fill that role.
Improvisation can be a mask—narcissistic, tactical, allergic to limits. True flexibility is slower, reasoned, born of doubt. One avoids the mirror, the other breaks it.
This infographic, generated via GPT-4o’s native image mode, draws a parallel between AI’s next token prediction and legislative drafting: articles and words act as tokens in a predictive process that absorbs or precludes amendments based on context.
I Am European
It cannot be said lightly, but never before has the saying ‘si vis pacem, para bellum’ been more relevant for the EU than it is now.
Fewer words, fewer actions. The weight lifts, the essential stays.
Less is more
disenchantment, as long as it doesn’t turn into cynicism, can be a great way to stop being so hard on yourself
