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The Oppenheimer Test

Every system reaches a point where its makers lose the ability to contain it. Oppenheimer faced it in 1945. Artificial intelligence is moving toward the same line, where control slips and responsibility spreads to those forced to live with the consequences.
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5 Scientific Facts About AI Influence

A silent shift is underway in how humans form opinions, build trust, and even experience emotion. While public debate fixates on deepfakes and election interference, a more pervasive force is emerging: not through propaganda, but through conversation. As millions engage with Large Language Models every day, asking for advice, explanations, and emotional reassurance, AI is no longer just informing, it is influencing. Drawing on new research from 2024–2025, this article uncovers how LLMs influence cognition and political alignment at a subconscious level, not through spectacle but through chatbot conversations. If influence is no longer loud, how do we notice it at all?
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AI and Work: The Hidden Human Cost of Automation

A quiet revolution is unfolding in workplaces worldwide. From coding to content creation, automation is reshaping not just how we work — but why we work. The real danger of AI may not be unemployment, but the slow unmaking of what it means to be human. Through the story of a developer training the AI that will one day replace him, this article explores the human cost of automation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Arendt, it examines how technology erodes meaning, identity, and connection, and asks what happens when humans no longer stand at the centre of their own creation.
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Nepal Social Media Ban: Power and Control in 2025

In Nepal, the line between connection and control blurred when the government banned 26 social media platforms. What followed was a youth-led uprising that revealed deep fractures in its fragile democracy. This article reflects on how digital tools can empower or silence, and why Nepal’s struggle offers lessons for a world wrestling with the politics of technology.
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AI in Organized Crime: The Rise of Deepfakes

A new report published by Europol highlights the increasing threat coming from the use of AI in organized crime. Deepfake extortions, politically motivated cyberattacks and targeted data theft: cybercrime is evolving at a faster pace than Artificial Intelligence regulation. This article explores how organized crime is implementing Generative Artificial Intelligence to expand and professionalize illicit activities worldwide, and the massive human and economic costs that come with it.
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No Target, No Trigger, No Mercy

In 1943, a German pilot spared a shattered Allied bomber, choosing mercy where orders demanded execution. AI in warfare would not have paused. It would have scanned, confirmed, and fired, not from hatred but from code. Humans still draw fragile lines in war: a flag, a hand, a refusal. Machines do not see lines, only patterns, and once flagged as enemy, context collapses.
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