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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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The sound and cost of silence

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology

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When we really become hybrid beings

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The virtual of virtual reality

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A plant-centered view of the world

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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism

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The quest for autonomy in the digital age

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The depth of deep ecology

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The internet of thoughts

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A phronetic approach to healthcare

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The ambiguity of self-tracking for health

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Hegel and the unfolding idea of freedom in the 21st century

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Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"

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Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett

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Alternatives at the return of history

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Contemporary spirituality is all about the self

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A return to utopian thinking

In the last decade, pragmatic utopian thinking has gained considerable popularity in different domains.

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Narrative of Big Tech

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The intelligence of AI

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Disappearing rhythms

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Marx in the 21st century

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Building memory in the information age

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The return of hermeneutics

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New materialism

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Data has a will of its own

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Why we should embrace the void

The psychoanalysis of 'Love, Death & Robots'

The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe

What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?

We are the products of technological mediation

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI

When images matter more than reality

A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media

The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent