The Achilles heel of consumer democracies is that there is precious little constituency for the future in the present. All the feedback signals — in politics, culture and the market — are geared to short-term gratification. In each case, the incentives of... See more
From Silicon Valley to the Vatican, across kitchen tables and in the halls of power, the world is astir over the question of whether humans will be able to control the AIs we've created. But that begs the question: What does it mean to be 'human'? One pla... See more
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. What the experts didn’t expect to see for decades or longer, if ever, has already happened. Earlier this month, OpenAI’s... See more
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. The topic of this year’s Berggruen Prize Essay Competition is “A New Axial Age?” It follows an essay in Noema by Otto Sc... See more
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. Recently, Elon Musk stirred controversy across a sweltering Europe simply by tweeting on X that Lee Kuan Yew, the foundi... See more
