A moment of reflection on a long journey: Countless people have blocked or muted for speaking truths that were difficult to accept, often long before they were widely recognized. Yet I have still reached nearly 200,000 followers (and over 80,000 substack subscribers) speaking
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AI Cannot Truly Understand Human Feelings: Trust Implications
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Why AI Will Never Truly Understand Your Feelings — And Why That Matters Empathy, nuance, and emotional intelligence remain deeply human traits. This article explores why AI can mimic emotion but can’t genuinely feel—and the implications for trust. Read more
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New humanoid robot capable of genuine human connection for homes
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Yogi: New #humanoid robot capable of ‘genuine human connection’ could take over homes! https://
search.app/kGQ5G #humanoidrobot #Robotics #Robots @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon @cyngn @belindabeibi -
Dragons in Our Minds: Perception Limits of AI Impact
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Most dragons only live in our minds, and they grow huge there
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Unionism Facing Automation: Toward a World Without Bosses or Workers
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Unionism was built on a simple value: one human facing one boss. Tomorrow, there will be neither bosses nor workers, just proprietary algorithms. My latest article co-written with @dr_l_alexandre
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Speed advantage over size in technological world
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Dans le monde qui vient, ce ne sont plus les gros qui mangeront les petits, mais les rapides qui dévoreront les lents. C’est pourquoi je suis très inquiet pour la France et pour l’Europe.
— Rafik Smati (@RafikSmati) 18 octobre 2025
L’accélération devient en effet la seule constante. Dans cette course effrénée, ceux qui… pic.twitter.com/YeQVLT0ZZPDans le monde qui vient, ce ne sont plus les gros qui mangeront les petits, mais les rapides qui dévoreront les lents. C’est pourquoi je suis très inquiet pour la France et pour l’Europe. L’accélération devient en effet la seule constante. Dans cette course effrénée, ceux qui
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Does AI Free Us for High-Value Work or Just Complexity?
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Is AI actually freeing us up to actually do the highest value tasks available? Or… Just the ones with the highest amount of complexity, ambiguity, and liability? All too often, I hear people say that AI's core job is removing the drudgery so we can all be highly creative
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AI as Tool for Corporate Exploitation and Environmental Destruction
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For decades we worried that AI would take over and destroy us. But AI is just the final tool in the corporate psychopaths’ arsenal; extracting our skills, our knowledge, our souls – reducing our brains to mush & our planet to dust as they head off to their luxury bunkers.
→ View original post on X — @johnchavens, 2025-10-17 13:44 UTC
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Elsevier RIKEN Report Amplifies Women Leadership Japanese Science
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Elsevier and RIKEN have released a report, Envisioning Futures: Amplifying #Women’s Voices and #Leadership in Japanese Science. It calls on #research institutions to expand definitions of excellence to include mentorship, collaboration, & societal impact
