Humanity’s ability to build complex civilizations relies on an "invisible infrastructure" - the shared culture, institutions, and technologies that allow us to scale trust beyond our immediate circles. As we approach an era of autonomous AI agents acting on our behalf, we are running into this exact same trust bottleneck.

Transcription of a talk given during the work sessions organized by Technoréalisme on December 9, 2025, in Paris. The talk presents the conclusions of a research project on cultural, ideological, and political biases in large language models.

On the Dwarkesh Podcast, former chief economist of the IMF Ken Rogoff explains why China is on the brink of a debt crisis. But is his argument really about China?

Generations X,Y and Z are faced with a number of existential economic questions for the rest of the century. From the looming demographic crisis in developed nations to the precarious state of sovereign debt, and the escalating economic warfare between the US and China over AI and space technology, here is a sobering picture ...

What happens when a "normal" person tries to wrap their head around one of humanity's most elusive concepts? This article is as much about overcoming imposter syndrome as it is about the metaphysics of time.

Bubble or true technological revolution? While the path forward isn't without obstacles, the value being created by AI extends far beyond speculative investments, touching every sector of the economy and fundamentally altering the nature of work itself.

Artificial Intelligence is a divisive subject that sparks numerous debates about both its potential and its limitations. However, there's one aspect everyone can agree on: current commercial practices demonstrate that the sector is still far from maturity.

We never planned to write this article. But everything looked so easy on social media, so we had to try and create some visuals for our platform using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet. And then we felt entitled to an opinion on AI-art.

Evaluation of human performance is notoriously difficult, even for an expert eye. The difficulty primarily lies in consistency of evaluations across subjects and over time. And, for all satisfactory solutions, a key challenge is then to communicate the output without losing valuable information.

Tech culture is an object of fascination to the public, even though there is little evidence that high-profile Tech companies share a homogeneous set of values. In reality, there is more to learn about culture and ingredients of success of an organization from the science underpinning technology, than from trying to pin down ...