7 Ways AI Reinforces Inequality Against Women
From bias to deepfakes, AI harms women in structural ways that mirror existing inequalities. Technology built to enhance human potential continues to reinforce gendered power and exclusion.
5 Scientific Facts About AI Influence
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?
AI and Work: The Hidden Human Cost of Automation
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.
Peace Becomes Unprofitable: Big Tech, AI and Warfare
From a silenced keynote at the UN’s AI for Good Summit to $47 billion in defense contracts, Big Tech’s entanglement with AI warfare reveals a troubling reality: the same firms promoting “AI for Good” are profiting from its use in war. Behind the glossy rhetoric of ethics and innovation lies a structural paradox, when profit depends on military AI, peace itself becomes a threat to business. This article explores how tech giants have entered the military-industrial complex, why their profit motives create a “peace trap” where conflict fuels innovation, and what it would take to realign AI with the pursuit of peace.
European Digital Dependency and the Battle for Democracy
From Musk’s vulgar dismissal of the EU Commissioner to Europe’s reliance on Google Cloud and Chinese 5G, the story of European Digital Dependency is one of sovereignty without power. This article explores how regulations like the DSA clash with harsh realities: Europe depends on the very technologies it seeks to govern. From military contracts to social media platforms shaping elections, it traces how foreign tech has become embedded in Europe’s democratic core, and what pathways exist to reclaim digital resilience.
How Spyware is Rewriting the Rules of Democracy
Pegasus spyware Europe has turned smartphones into weapons of surveillance, piercing the heart of privacy and trust. What once seemed like the tool of authoritarian regimes has quietly entered Europe’s democratic core.
From Poland’s elections to Spain’s independence movements and Germany’s secret purchase, spyware is no longer just a foreign policy concern – but a domestic democratic crisis. This article explores how Pegasus spyware reshapes European democracy, undermining press freedom, competitive elections, and the citizen–state relationship itself.
Forget Social Media: The AI Manipulation Era Has Arrived
AI is becoming an unseen editor of reality itself. With US oversight dismantled and “anti-woke” neutrality redefined, political agendas can now guide what AI says, what it omits, and how billions worldwide come to understand the world.
Rethinking Influence in the Age of Algorithmic Warfare
In today’s landscape of information warfare, where war influencing has become a prevalent force, using digital communication to divide, manipulate, and destabilise; peace influencing could serve as a vital counterstrategy. This article explores digital peace through the lens of peace journalism and media theory, tracing how narratives shape conflict and cohesion alike. It examines the historical role of media in war, the transformation brought by social platforms, and how strategic communication is now being reclaimed to foster dialogue, empathy, and democratic resilience. From global grassroots efforts to evolving norms in digital communication, it argues that influencing for peace is no longer idealistic, but necessary.
The Hidden Democratic Cost of Cognitive Offloading
We increasingly let machines think for us, not just in everyday choices, but in how we navigate reality itself. Cognitive offloading describes this process of delegating mental tasks to external systems. What begins as a tool for convenience can quietly erode our ability to notice, remember, and decide for ourselves. As artificial intelligence mediates how we access information, make decisions, and even perceive the world, this quiet handover of our cognitive autonomy is not only convenient, but becoming dangerous. This article explores how cognitive offloading undermines our ability to think critically, and why that erosion poses a structural threat to our democracies.
Why Emotional Intelligence is a Democratic Skill
In an age where outrage is monetised and emotional manipulation is engineered at scale, emotional intelligence is no longer a wellness trend, but becoming a democratic necessity. This article explores why individual emotional resilience should be recognised as a key pillar of democratic resilience in the 21st century and how developing it could be the most overlooked defence against digital polarisation and political manipulation.
