"“We’re sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can see from miles away, ...Are we really just going to lie down and let AI take everything from us?” ...what do we get in for this systematic degradation of much of the stuff that makes life worth living?" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

"The big tech companies like to see themselves as invested in spreading knowledge and curiosity. In fact in order to survive they must promote stupidity. ... Dumb rage and partisan thinking keep us glued to our phones." jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

on China's mixed vs America's disastrous current pathways, the overblown promise of AI & urgent need for regulatory agency & a new FDR-inspired working-class liberalism: excellent wideranging podcast with Daron Acemoglu on liberal democracy's multiple crises www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how...

Mijn interview vandaag in de podcast serie "De 7 Extra" van de zakenkrant De Tijd: Ouders financieren grotendeels de welvaartsstaat van morgen voor iedereen door de nieuwe generatie belastingsberalers op te voeden: een publiek goed. youtu.be/cKDTmCqMKDE?...

My interview today, together with UA colleague Karel Neels in the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd: 'Vanhuysse ... (licht) toe wat elk beleid volgens hem onderschat: dat ouders ... grotendeels de welvaartsstaat van morgen financieren.' www.tijd.be/dossiers/gen...

Was honored to address the ImPACT Coalition for Future Generations today. Part of the United Nations Impact Coalitions Programme, the ImPACT Coalition for Future Generations is a global network dedicated to reimagining the United Nations for the 21st century ourfutureagenda.org/impact-coali...

My interview today, together with UA colleague Karel Neels in the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd: 'Vanhuysse ... (licht) toe wat elk beleid volgens hem onderschat: dat ouders ... grotendeels de welvaartsstaat van morgen financieren.' www.tijd.be/dossiers/gen...

In preparing for the coming demographic change in Europe, redressing inter- and intra-generational imbalances may be both politically harder and socially more needed. I was honored to speak at Population Europe's Villa Vigoni conference population-europe.eu/events/event...

What should be high(er) on the policy agenda regarding demography? Report of our Population Europe experts meeting with European Commissioner Dubravka Suica and European Commission officials www.population-europe.eu/network/news...

Final session of the European Citizens’ Panel on Intergenerational Fairness: #policy #cocreation & #deliberative #democracy - 150 citizens delivered their recommendations to Commissioner Micallef for his Strategy. I was honored to be on the Knowledge Committee citizens.ec.europa.eu/citizens-pan...

A #governance perspective on East Central Europe’s #population predicament: Young exit, grey voice and lopsided loyalty": My paper cited in the new European Strategy and Policy Analysis System foresight paper on #intergenerational #fairness austriaca.at?arp=0x003fa3... www.espas.eu/home.html#pu...

Intergenerational Fairness: How to deliver a fairer future for all? I addressed the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) 2025 conference on this urgent question of #policy #generations #fairness and the #future: www.espas.eu/programme202...

At the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) annual conference in Brussels: European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Culture, Youth and Sport Glenn Micallef speaking on how his portfolio needs and uses #foresight for #policy www.espas.eu/programme202...

Join us 13 Nov at #ESPAS for the main #EU strategic foresight and future-oriented policy event of the year: "Europe towards 2040" Cohosted by European Commission & European Parliament. ESPAS brings together 9 institutions thinking longer term to inform EU #policy www.espas.eu/conference20...

AI as a stochastic parrot ".... a system “for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning”. www.ft.com/content/9029...

Join us 13 Nov at #ESPAS for the main #EU strategic foresight and future-oriented policy event of the year: "Europe towards 2040" Cohosted by European Commission & European Parliament. ESPAS brings together 9 institutions thinking longer term to inform EU #policy www.espas.eu/conference20...

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Join us 13 November at #ESPAS for the main #EU strategic foresight and future-oriented policy event of the year: "Europe towards 2040: Charting a course in a new era of conflict and competition". Cohosted by the European Commission & the European Parliament www.espas.eu/programme202...

"You also shouldn’t pretend that by cognitively offloading a task, you will magically get smarter because you can focus on more advanced and complex skills. More advanced and complex skills are based on simpler ones." substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-liv...

What to do to make the EU fair for all current & future generations? Today 2nd session of European Citizens’ Panel on #Intergenerational #Fairness. My role as member of the 10-person Knowledge Committee: to summarize statements by six European Commissioners citizens.ec.europa.eu/intergenerat...

"Are schools and universities still equipped to produce creative, original thinkers who will build better, more intelligent societies – or is the education system going to churn out mindless, gullible, AI essay-writing drones?" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What to do to make the EU fair for all current & future generations? Today 2nd session of European Citizens’ Panel on #Intergenerational #Fairness. My role as member of the 10-person Knowledge Committee: to summarize statements by six European Commissioners citizens.ec.europa.eu/intergenerat...

What course ahead for Europe in terms of #intergenerational #fairness? I will address the annual conference next month of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), co-hosted by the European Commission and the European Parliament www.espas.eu/conference20...

What course ahead for Europe in terms of #intergenerational #fairness? I will address the annual conference next month of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), co-hosted by the European Commission and the European Parliament www.espas.eu/conference20...

A deep and original theorist, a generous colleague, and a kind friend has left us. RIP, Claus. You will be missed dearly. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

¿Por qué grava la crianza de los hijos? En el análisis de la baja fertilidad española —1,19 hijos por mujer—, Pieter Vanhuysse concluye que se deben replantear las políticas públicas, para permitir que aquellos que quieran ser padres puedan serlo agendapublica.es/noticia/1894...

What place-specific policies to combat depopulation from Europe's regions? I was honored to give the keynote to the first International Congress on Depopulation, organised by the Gobierno de Aragon deep in the mountains at Segura de Banos #demography #policy #regions www.aragon.es/actualidad/i...

"Democrafting the future" : my podcast on why our welfare states are intergenerational piggy banks, the hidden asymmetric burden of social reproduction in low-fertility Europe, and all things political demography: democraft.blog

¿Por qué grava la crianza de los hijos? En el análisis de la baja fertilidad española —1,19 hijos por mujer—, Pieter Vanhuysse concluye que se deben replantear las políticas públicas, para permitir que aquellos que quieran ser padres puedan serlo agendapublica.es/noticia/1894...

What place-specific policies to combat depopulation from Europe's regions? I was honored to give the keynote to the first International Congress on Depopulation, organised by the Gobierno de Aragon deep in the mountains at Segura de Banos #demography #policy #regions www.aragon.es/actualidad/i...

"Democrafting the future" : my podcast on why our welfare states are intergenerational piggy banks, the hidden asymmetric burden of social reproduction in low-fertility Europe, and all things political demography: democraft.blog

First weekend at the European Citizens Panel on #Intergenerational #Fairness as a Knowledge Committee member: answering citizen requests, and a nice view of Parc Leopold, where 19th century scientific Brussels intermingles with contemporary Euro-Brussels

European Commisioner Micallef has just addressed the European Citizens' Panel on #Intergenerational #Fairness in Brussels. This weekend, as part of the Knowledge Committee for this Citizens Panel, I guide 150 citizens' input into the #EU strategy on IF citizens.ec.europa.eu/intergenerat...

Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Why the piggy bank dwarfs Robin Hood in Europe Policy Brief version at the European Social Observatory: www.ose.be/publication/...

European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods. Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods. Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Glad to have been appointed as a member of the Knowledge Committee of the European Citizens' Panel on Intergenerational Fairness. We will be guiding 150 Europeans' input into EU Commissioner Micallef's developing strategy on intergenerational fairness citizens.ec.europa.eu/concluded-on...

There is an asymmetry in socialization of downward v upward transfers. Children receive more than twice as many per-capita resources as older persons - but mot from the state. In aging, low-fertility societies, why has investment in children not been socialized more? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pro-Elderly Welfare States within Child-Oriented Societies theconversation.com/how-the-youn...

There is an asymmetry in socialization of downward v upward transfers. Children receive more than twice as many per-capita resources as older persons - but mot from the state. In aging, low-fertility societies, why has investment in children not been socialized more? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies

Glad to have been appointed as a member of the Knowledge Committee of the European Citizens' Panel on Intergenerational Fairness. We will be guiding 150 Europeans' input into EU Commissioner Micallef's developing strategy on intergenerational fairness citizens.ec.europa.eu/concluded-on...