Strong recommendation - Social Democracy News on Substack. Intellectually omnivorous and comprehensive, condensed to bite size paragraphs. And the political perspective is spot on. open.substack.com/pub/socdemne...

Just announced, Sat 19th and Sun 20th Sept: "The Technoprogressive Opportunity: The future of ethics and emerging technologies". Jointly hosted by @IEET and @LondonFuturists. Free to attend. Speakers will be announced shortly, but RSVPs are already open at www.meetup.com/london-futur...

On Prosthetic Gods, J and Nir spoke with Alan Rozenshtein, Law prof at the UMinnesota, senior editor of Lawfare, and fellow at Brookings, about the Trump administration’s conflict with Anthropic over the military and surveillance uses of Claude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAr-...

NYT says some economists are finally waking up to the likelihood that the Economic Singularity is coming. About time. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

Altman is floating technoprogressive policy as OpenAI spirals the drain. Not bad, but trying to tie the welfare state to AI progress when we should do this anyway. www.axios.com/2026/04/06/b...

How much does the EPA think keeping someone alive is worth, in dollars, weighed against the cost of making a corporation clean up after itself? The previous answer hovered at about $11.7 million per person. The Trump administration’s answer is zero. futurism.com/science-ener...

Review of 11 studies: AI clinical decision support systems in primary care demonstrate limited and inconsistent effectiveness at clinician-, patient-, and system-level. preprints.jmir.org/preprint/968...

Excellent application of harm reduction approaches to substance use, instead abstention and shaming, to the promotion of AI literacy. youtu.be/y85nqc2zm7M?...

Harper O'Connor presents masterful technoprogressive argument. The Left lacks an effective strategy for democratizing AI. Instead of oscillating between reactionary dismissal and technological fatalism, we need a political framework for reclaiming control. youtu.be/Z75hlhgchQ4?...

Are these platforms actually causing widespread harm to kids? Is “social media addiction” a real thing that justifies treating Instagram like a pack of Marlboros? .. www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/t...

"Since quitting his position at Google Hinton’s constant refrain has been “I am a socialist!”. He has tirelessly and concertedly campaigned for the redistribution of wealth and tighter regulations to offset the palpable pernicious consequences for AI" countercurrents.org/2026/01/i-am...

FDA approves Lilly's Foundayo (orforglipron), an oral GLP-1 pill for weight loss. It offers superior weight loss and blood sugar control compared to oral semaglutide (Rybelsus), with efficacy trailing only injectable tirzepatide (Zepbound/Mounjaro). www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

"In China, low-wage workers could be most vulnerable as robots are already serving food in restaurants, delivering room service in hotels, and guiding shoppers in malls... 200 million gig workers face mounting threats from robotaxis and delivery drones." www.chinatalk.media/p/china-on-a...

On Prosthetic Gods, Nir interrogates an essay by J. on Buddhism, enhancement, and the self. They discuss the appeal of Buddhism for teenage Hughes, and how Buddhism reconciles a radical deconstruction of the self with moral commitment and principles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2PR...

AI-powered augmented reality glasses help people with dementia, improving memory, object recognition and confidence in daily routines. www.innovatorsmag.com/smart-glasse...

Unlike surgically implanted BCIs, this electrode expands inside the ventricle to gently hug the walls, ensuring constant contact. Unlike cortical implants that trigger permanent scarring, this causes only a tiny, temporary immune stir that vanished within weeks. neurosciencenews.com/ventricular-...

We're beginning to plan the London technoprogressive conference, Sept 19-20. These are our provisional venue and themes. Let us know if you are coming, and what you think we should be talking about. londonfuturists.com/forthcoming-...

Forthcoming film on the future of automation and work from justfuturesfilm.com: “JUST FUTURES: In a Post-Labor world" (trailer) vimeo.com/1173414969?f...

We need to extend national health to cover long term care. That will be a lot more feasible if home healthcare are complemented and assisted by robot aides for the disabled and elderly. www.linkedin.com/posts/bertal...

AI companies’ wholesale data theft echoes the enclosure of common lands in England in the lead-up to the Industrial Revolution. theconversation.com/basic-income...

Humanoid robots can manipulate human empathy and consent; robotic caregiving could be used as a pretext to dismantle the social safety net, and robot lovers could deepen loneliness. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/humanoid-r...

"AI should proactively take actions that benefit society." MacAskill and Davidson explore the risks and benefits. newsletter.forethought.org/p/ai-should-...

Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”— a blueprint for Trump’s second admin: Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Are you interested in promoting a left-wing politics that is open to a technologically transformed future? Join us June 20-Augist 20 for a weekly course on technoprogressivism, sponsored by the Institute for Ethics of Emerging Technologies. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

AI can nudge us away from division, toward a technocratic consensus

How China handles its population crisis —from encouraging families to have more kids to using new technology—will also be an example for other middle-income countries facing similar problems. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

The Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, a sweeping progressive package that would fund direct cash payments - $3K/yr to every member of households below $150K - through a new annual 5% wealth tax on billionaires. www.newsweek.com/plan-for-300...

While social media is polarising, evidence suggests AI may nudge people towards the centre. www.ft.com/content/3880...

How you can simultaneously address two major potential causes of death of yourself and everyone you care about: - The potential of death from an age-related condition - The potential of death from misaligned or uncontrolled advanced AI dw2blog.com/2026/02/05/r...

No, the verdict in the ‘social media addiction’ lawsuit was not a win against big tech, it creates a legal precedent for mass surveillance, censorship, the total destruction of the open web. Go to badinternetbills.com and fight these laws!! 👈👈👈

Join us virtually on 4/23 for our Annual Daniel Callahan Program. We will have a lively debate...Should we edit human #embryos to prevent disease—or does it go too far? This timely subject tackles the science, ethics, and future of #GeneEditing ⚖️ 🔗: https://bit.ly/47LdOXR

Anthropic’s Claude Constitution sets out safety and ethical rules, but does not explicitly reference human rights, writes Yuval Shany. Recent clashes with the DoD and reported military use highlight its limits and gaps in safeguards and accountability in high-risk deployments, he argues.

On Bread and Robots, Matteo talks with technoprogressive politician Brandon King about his campaign for a Minnesota House seat. He advocates for 3D-printed sovereign homes, a 16-hour workweek, and a public asteroid mining program to fund a New New Deal. breadandrobots.substack.com/p/the-space-...

Most Americans hold optimistic views toward AI. People with higher social health, higher agreeableness, lower neuroticism and loneliness, or more familiarity with technology, tended to have more favorable views about the impact of AI. www.psypost.org/most-america...

Cody gets a shout out in SciAm. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-c...

(AI) can give every human being on the planet access to a sort of political superintelligence, if we shape it right...can make governments smarter and more effective, representatives more faithful, and institutions more responsive. freesystems.substack.com/p/building-p...

We don’t need to wait for mass unemployment to justify UBI. We don’t need to wait for AI to be smarter. The justification has existed since the 1970s. Every year we delay is another year the dividend flows upward instead of to all of us. @scottsantens open.substack.com/pub/ieet/p/u...

This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J talk about the distinctive ethical issues raised by the humanoid robots coming to homes and workplaces. Their presence and human-like form elicit unique responses compared to those of non-embodied AI. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/humanoid-r...

Humanity “should merge with the machine — so long as it [remains] segmented by gender, race, and class. Call it cyborg conservatism.” ... trans people challenge the CEO’s love of a supposedly natural gender hierarchy that must remain essentially unchanged. jacobin.com/2026/03/musk...

Technoprogressive Hub - When AI Lets Nurses Do Doctors' Work www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTw...

This week on Technoprogressive Hub, Eli, Matteo and J are discussing proposals for pro-worker artificial intelligence laws. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/proworker-ai

Very few Americans think IVF or contraceptives are morally wrong, and there is little partisan disagreement about them, compared to abortion and homosexuality.

Well at least we further alienated our NATO allies, pissed off all the GCC countries, blew through multiple years’ bench stock of interceptors, proved Iran’s ability to close the strait at will and under fire, our own inability to open it by force and maybe incited a mutiny on our newest CVN

“AI, Job Loss, and UBI: The Fight Over the Future of Work:” a round-table discussion with Scott Santens, Karl Widerquist, Megan Joyce, and Andy Mill. Moderated by Michael Moynihan, 2WAY and The Moynihan Report, Streamed live on Mar 18, 2026. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, & YouTube:

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.

The EU is pushing ahead with AI Act changes that weaken protections for high-risk systems and leave no meaningful path to redress, even as evidence of harm mounts, write CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and Magdalena Maier.

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley Jacob Silverman www.nature.com/articles/d41...

With widening inequality fueling populist anger, and AI threatening to displace human labor, economist Daron Acemoglu of MIT spoke with philosopher Michael Sandel of Harvard about how democracy can be revitalized before the damage becomes irreversible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpI...

Beware the interaction effects. Finding cats attractive. Becoming a hyper hairless catgirl.