How the term “artificial intelligence” distorts our understanding of the technology, exaggerates both its promise and peril, and complicates how we govern it.
Science & Technology
Self-Driving Science
End-to-end AI-automated science undercuts trust, obscures responsibility, and restricts adaptivity.
Art and Science during Argentina’s Political Upheaval and Dirty War
How art, mathematics and creativity became anchors during one of Argentina’s darkest periods.
Borges Never Saw a Computer. He Understood AI Anyway.
What three stories from 1941 can teach us about intelligence, judgment, and the future of AI.
Can Science Become Self-Driving?
Preserving the conditions for discovery in an age of autonomous science.
Assuredness is not Accuracy
Why confidence is not the same as truth.
When Prediction Outruns Understanding
Why explanation still matters in the age of AI.
AI: Collaborator or Substitute?
AI may be the most powerful cognitive collaborator ever created.
Progression Without Progress
Why optimizing scientific workflows may undermine the evolutionary process that makes discovery possible.
The Hook Is the Problem
Why the future keeps surprising us.
When Confidence Scales Faster Than Understanding
How social media and AI reshape how we form—and trust—our beliefs.
AI Models Lose Their Shirts On Premier League Bets
Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI struggle when asked to predict scores over football season.
Why Simulation Is Not Explanation
AI systems can now simulate with remarkable fidelity. They generate text, predict outcomes, and reproduce patterns across domains. In many cases, they are not just useful—they are operationally superior.
AI is Making Bad Abstractions More Convincing
Leaders today are not short on data. If anything, they are saturated—dashboards, simulations, metrics, forecasts.
We Keep Asking AI the Wrong Question
AI is advancing rapidly in prediction—forecasting demand, generating text, anticipating behavior. The gains are real. But the framing is incomplete.
The Recipe for Innovation? An Alliance Between Art and Science.
Three tips to help organizations build bridges between creative and systematic thinkers
The New Central Planning
Revisiting the Central Planning Fallacy in the Age of AI.
Design Thinking and Evolution
In the popular view, art is about creation, technology about invention, and science about discovery.
Creativity Across Domains
Thoughts in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Technology, and Art.
Can Leadership & Creativity Coexist?
It is rare, but when they do remarkable things happen.