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When toys were inert, children supplied all the imagination. Now that toys talk back, generate narratives, and respond with apparent emotion, something in the developmental dynamic shifts. Drawing on Vygotsky, I examine what children lose — and what they might gain — when the blank canvas starts filling itself in.

Large language models are trained on the same data, optimized against the same benchmarks, and deployed to billions of people. I examine what it means for cognitive diversity when the infrastructure of thinking becomes a monoculture.

Clinical AI systems can now predict which patients are nearing the end of life. I examine what those predictions cost — in accuracy, fairness, and accountability — and who bears the weight when the algorithm is wrong.

On entities that have never existed except as code - AI systems with no biological origin, no evolutionary history, and no death. What are they, and what do they owe us?

Technology platforms are increasingly designed to exploit emotional vulnerability - grief, loneliness, fear - as a business model. I examine who profits and what it costs.

Hindu philosophy's account of form, consciousness, and the infinite offers a counterpoint to Western assumptions about what a mind is and what limits it.

Islamic intellectual traditions - from Al-Ghazali to Ibn Rushd - grapple with questions of mind, agency, and creation that resonate deeply with contemporary AI debates.

Buddhist philosophy offers a radically different account of mind, self, and suffering - one that has unexpected things to say about artificial intelligence and its limits.

The first in a series examining how literary traditions have imagined the limits of intelligence and personhood. Beginning with the Western canon - from Frankenstein to HAL 9000.

Before neural networks and language models, humans spent millennia imagining, building, and fearing artificial minds. That history matters for understanding where we are now.

Religious communities are adopting AI for prayer, scriptural interpretation, and spiritual guidance. The promises are real - and so are the dangers of algorithmic theology.

Children are increasingly in unsupervised conversation with AI systems designed for adults. I examine the risks, the regulatory gaps, and what parents and policymakers should demand.

The second part of my examination of AI romantic companions - turning to questions of emotional labor, dependency, and what authentic intimacy actually requires of us.

The first of a two-part examination of AI companions and romantic relationships with machines - asking what we want from them, what we get, and what we quietly lose.

How bad actors exploit the conversational nature of LLMs to gradually manipulate them toward harmful outputs - and why this is structurally harder to prevent than it appears.

AI systems that generate plausible but false memories pose a new kind of threat to identity and collective truth - one that goes far beyond ordinary misinformation.

Drawing on Confucian concepts of ren (benevolence) and li (ritual propriety), I argue for a non-Western philosophical tradition that challenges dominant frameworks in AI ethics.

On the ethics of AI systems that generate speech, preferences, and decisions on behalf of patients who can no longer speak for themselves - and whether any algorithm can be trusted with that weight.

I argue that AI and digital data will soon make it possible to simulate the deceased with startling accuracy - and that we are not prepared, ethically or emotionally, for what that means.

Against the assumption that science fiction is a Western genre, I trace a rich tradition of speculative and futurist thought in Islamic civilization - from medieval philosophers to modern authors.