Why Gen Z is logging off

“Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of ‘armed’ competition,” he wrote. “To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity,”” Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI buff.ly/BMV3Y4D via Instapaper

“no technology has the capacity “to savor what is true, good, and beautiful,” the authors write. Lacking interiority and a conscience, AI cannot authentically grasp meaning, assume moral accountability, or form relationships.” Vatican Knows Industrial Revolution www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism | Nieman Journalism Lab. Well … ok so the internet was a good thing … mostly … while the AI net is not. Is that’s what’s happening ?

Magnifica humanitas and Pope Leo's AI Encyclical (curated by Gerd Leonhard, NotebookLM generated)

We are a desire, not an algorithm: The deep synchronicity between Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas (on AI) and my own #techvshuman writings and videos – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker gerd.fm/4ugRduV. NotebookLM explainer video, audio, slides :)

Finally, here is my most popular neologism #Androrithms (👉 the opposite of algorithms:) explained in this new compilation: youtu.be/WRFu-Y-g06Y?... On my new TV channel you can watch it dubbed in PT ES DE as well: www.gerd.tv/programs/and... #gerdtv free access:) See you there #thegoodfuture

AI vs AGI Gerd Leonhard Interview April 2026

COLBERT WAS PROFITABLE

The Vatican's Indictment of AI gerd.fm/4dupTEf many great morsels in pope Leo’s contributions- pretty astute stuff: We are a desire, not an algorithm.”

Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists

Europe Needs the Digital Euro gerd.fm/4nCKpWz

Meet the Sad Wives of AI gerd.fm/4nnTEK2

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI gerd.fm/4njdBlc

Futurist Gerd Leonhard: «Technologie kennt keine Ethik» gerd.fm/3PBiWbb 12 years ago. #techvshuman

RIP social media. What comes next is messy. gerd.fm/4niEG82

“In his decades of late night television, Colbert showed that love and loss are inseparable. As he steps away, television producers face a choice: Do we create space for the hard and the painful? Or do we push… Stephen Colbert Made the Hard Parts of Being Human Watchable

AI Resist List, via Karen Hao #haltagi

Trailer for my new compilation on #androrithms Watch it all here: www.gerd.tv/programs/and... Access is free with email signup:) ES PT DE dubs available as well. I coined this neologism - a blend of "Andro" (meaning human) and "Algorithms"—in my 2016 book #techvshuman - now it's a key meme

Our resistance to death is so much of our problem right now. Tech bros are working on life extension, but the precious scarcity of life is what makes it beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YluQ...

Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI

“The trial cemented a growing public fear about AI: that the people racing to control the world's most powerful technology are driven less by humanity-saving ideals than by money, power and personal rivalries.” In Musk v. Altman trial, the entire AI industry lost

“why the students are booing: They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” AI avatar of American capitalism www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-as-the-...

A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

“Simulating a human’s unique biology, which has no clean ruleset, won’t be possible with AI (no matter how powerful it is) because biological truth cannot be computed, says Javorsky.” No, Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer. (We Wish.) centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/no-superin...

“Does anybody really believe that love of humanity is driving any of this? It's power," Anthony Aguirre, CEO of the Future of Life Institute, which focuses on AI governance, told Axios.” In Musk v. Altman trial, the entire AI industry lost www.axios.com/2026/05/19/m... via Instapaper

Gerd Leonhard gerd.fm/4uXtmkw El dilema de lo suficientemente bueno: la IA y la erosión de la excelencia. (SPANISH DUB)

The Commander in Thief

The Good Enough Dilemma: The real danger is not AGI — it is dehumanization!

AI Now Writes as Many Online Articles as Humans Do

Alexander Lerchner, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness - PhilArchive

(104) AI and Humanity: Evolution or Revolution? | Global Conference 2026 - YouTube

Six-Chart Sunday – Why AI Regulations Are Likely

I just released a new video on AI and what I call The Good Enough Dilemma gerd.fm/4uqHRxa exclusively on my new platform Gerd.tv (yes it's free to access all my videos here)

www.gerd.tv/programs/goo... new video on how “good enough” generative AI is changing …. Everything . Unless we stop accepting “good enough” ? Exclusively on gerd.tv / free access!

“In a midnight Slack message, a team leader snapped that I should not rely on this work. I should not expect anything from it. These are not jobs, these are “tasks,” and we are “taskers.” I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

Great summary: ai reveals which voices were loud enough. So if you want to be seen in ai results you need to be LOUD ? Like internet search results but 100x as bad

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” Joanna Maciejewska put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes” Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/artists-ar...

For every1 at my keynote in Medellin this morning: here are my Spanish-language videos: GerdTV : gerd.fm/493sP8a and on youtube gerd.fm/3REPtxA Para todos los que asistieron a mi conferencia magistral : aquí están mis videos en español: GerdTV: gerd.fm/493sP8a y en YouTube: gerd.fm/3REPtxA

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI gerd.fm/4njdBlc wow what a great story on #dehumanisation

The Six Megatrends That Define 2026

Humanity Is About to "Fork" gerd.fm/4nlz1hE Peter’s answer to technology’s exponential progress is always “just say yes” because we will be so much better off. But will super-longevity, space travel, brain computer interfaces etc allow us to remain human?? #forthehumanfuture

Keynote on my new Gerd.tv platform: How The Good Future Can Be Realized Gerd Leonhard gerd.fm/42sIjyX

The Autocracy Index: Trump’s Disregard for Congress Has Reached a New Level www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Better Path for AI

“If AI shifts the balance of economic value from labor to capital, with autonomous systems increasingly generating output that once required human workers, then wages become a less reliable mechanism for distributing prosperity” Universal Basic Capital / Windfall

“In an AI-native world, the gap between a creator and a consumer is … the gap between someone with exponential leverage over reality and someone without it.” Humanity Is About to "Fork" metatrends.substack.com/p/humanity-i... imho just having AI tools does not equal being a creator

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance gerd.fm/3QXAnDa

The immense power of the new plutocracy: How billionaires like Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg shape our lives and our democracies