Alison Darcy has founded Woebot, a company that offers therapy by a chatbot. She thinks that technology can help people with mental health issues and address problems of psychology as a science.
Jacob Mchangama. Bild: Keystone/Scanpix_DK/Thomas Lekfeldt.
An increasing number of countries are adopting measures to fight «hate speech». But these are counterproductive. Free speech and equality are not mutually exclusive, but mutually reinforcing.
Digitalisation is expanding the advertising industry’s ability to manipulate us. Micro-targeting is shaking the foundations of democracy.
Demonstranten lieferten sich an einer Anti-Trump-Demonstration im November 2016 in Portland, Oregon, ein Gefecht mit der Polizei. Bild: Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA Images USA.
By covering political protests, undercover journalist Andy Ngo became an enemy of Antifa and got beaten up several times. He says that society cannot tolerate political violence.
Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the system of governance that surround it, will be no exception.
It takes no effort to tolerate those who agree with you. Real tolerance should apply to those views you especially dislike. These days universities are a hotbed of bigotry. But Steven Pinker wants to change that.
In the course of the culture war in the United States, both conservatives and progressives are increasingly trying to ban undesirable books. That’s a worrying sign of intolerance.
Universidad de la Libertad. Cliente: Revista Central.
El Bitcoin liberará a la gente del yugo del Estado, cree Ricardo Salinas. El empresario mexicano advierte contra la desglobalización y explica por qué la proximidad a EEUU no sólo tiene ventajas para su país.
Ein Unterstützer von Donald Trump an einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung in Maryland, USA, im Februar 2024. Bild: Keystone/DPA/Annabelle Gordon.
American democracy is in danger of becoming a tyranny of the minority, warns Daniel Ziblatt. He calls for a reform of the electoral system and says what Trump would do differently in a second term in the White House.
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. Bild: Yale Campus Photos, Jack Devlin.(https://campusphotos.yale.edu/portals/campus-photos/#asset/33543)
Members of the upper class promote ideas like “white privilege” in order to increase their social standing. However, it’s often the poor who shoulder the costly burden of this behavior.
