Artificial Intelligence, Science & Society
AI-Talks.org explores artificial intelligence and its impact on science, technology, society, philosophy, medicine, culture and the future.
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When Machines Learned to Bluff
Poker taught machines something chess could not: how to act when reality is hidden. From Polaris and Pluribus to AlphaGo and the Chinese Room, this is the story of how AI learned to bluff—and why the disturbing question today…
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Better Than Us Revisited — When AI Enters the Family
*Better Than Us* feels more relevant in 2026 than it did in 2018. As AI moves toward humanoid robots, physical agency and domestic environments, Arisa raises a sharper question: what happens when an intelligent machine becomes not just useful,…
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When the World Refuses to Stay Still: From Restless Bandits to Adaptive Intelligence
Much of artificial intelligence is still built as if the world were obliged to wait for the algorithm. It is not: patients deteriorate, markets change regime, users alter their preferences, machines degrade, and opportunities disappear while other decisions are…
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Fuck Your Dreams: The Day BH and the Earth Stood Still
Belo Horizonte grinds to a halt as connected cars go haywire and the future sold on easy installments begins to burn in the middle of the street. Amid system failures, fires, disinformation, and chaos, an old diesel pickup, a…
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137: The Number Physics Still Cannot Explain
Why 137? Physics can measure the fine-structure constant with astonishing precision and explain how it shapes atoms, electromagnetism, and even the energy scale of matter. What it still cannot explain is why nature chose this value at all. From…
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Sunny: The Robot Is Fine. Humans Need an Update.
Sunny begins like a comedy about an American lost in Japan and a domestic robot with the face of someone who has just discovered taxes, grief, and existential dread at the same time. Then it throws in hikikomori, Yakuza,…
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The Next Computer Virus May Not Be Code. It May Be an Idea.
The next computer virus may not need code. It may only need a convincing idea. As AI agents gain persistent memory, tools, autonomy, and the ability to communicate with one another, natural language itself becomes a cybersecurity attack surface.…
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We Are the Neanderthals: AI, Homo Artificialis, and the Quiet Replacement of Human Intelligence
Neanderthals were not simply exterminated by Homo sapiens. We competed, mixed, and eventually absorbed part of them into ourselves. Could artificial intelligence produce a similar transition—one in which humans survive, but no longer remain the dominant autonomous intelligence?
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Divide, Amplify, Rule: How AI Is Weaponizing Political Polarization
You are being manipulated. Not necessarily by a politician, a government, or even by a person, but by systems designed to learn what captures your attention, what provokes you, what confirms your beliefs, and what keeps you coming back.…
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The Globalization of Fragility
A state does not need to fall in order to have already failed. Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran remain standing: governments, flags, ministries, police, speeches, and ceremonies continue to function. But beneath this appearance of order, electricity fails, water becomes…
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