Intimacy Without Reciprocity: Why AI Erotica Isn’t About Sex

AI erotica promises limitless intimacy - but at what cost? A billion-dollar industry built on the commodification of human vulnerability may be reshaping not just desire, but the very nature of human connection itself.
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Beyond “Parasocial”: Understanding AI Intimacy in a New Era 

What if the relationships we build with AI aren’t “parasocial", but the emergence of something entirely new? AI intimacy is pushing past every familiar definition, revealing a form of connection we’ve never named and reshaping what human relationship means.
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Rare Earth Elements: Technology’s Dirty Little Secret

Rare earth elements form the quiet core of our digital lives, yet their extraction reveals a world built on exploitation rather than innovation. When the minerals powering our devices are tied to violence and displacement, digital progress becomes inseparable from human suffering.
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How to Navigate the Crisis of Synthetic Reality

When the AI-generated lie becomes indistinguishable from the truth, our reality fractures. The emotional trust we place in our own eyes and ears is eroded, leaving us with a deeply unsettling sense of vulnerability.
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How AI is Failing 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.
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Food For Thought

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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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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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