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May 13, 2026

The Technocratic State and the Last Frontier of Freedom

The global discussion on artificial intelligence has ceased to be a technical debate and has become a first-rate political conflict. In 2024, the European Union enforced the EU AI Act, the world’s most comprehensive AI regulatory framework, placing strict compliance requirements on developers and companies before their products reach the market. Continue Reading...
April 07, 2026

What Christians Get Wrong About AI

We have a saying in my field: Don’t take business advice from people who think the business shouldn’t exist. Obvious? Tautological, even? Don’t be so sure. As someone in the world of corporate engagement, talking to the world’s largest companies on behalf of investors, you wouldn’t believe how often I find myself confronting corporate policies that were made to placate activists who really don’t want the company to exist. Continue Reading...
October 30, 2025

From Her to Here: Can Tech Cure Loneliness?

Recently, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI is considering allowing more personal—and even erotic—content for adult users, which reignited a broader conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. This might remind you of Her, the 2013 film in which a lonely man falls in love with his operating system. Continue Reading...
July 09, 2025

Pope Leo’s Crusade Against AI

For an organisation that is so often accused of being behind the times, the Catholic Church is proving itself to be remarkably relevant. Pope Leo XIV—the first American to ever sit on the Throne of St. Continue Reading...
January 23, 2025

Note to RedNoters: You’re Being Conned

TikTok was developed as a Chinese-government digital product marketed to Western youth and operated under a secretive algorithm. It promoted anti-American narratives—from lavishing praise on Osama bin Laden to pushing transgender hype—but its chief purpose was probably data-mining. Continue Reading...
November 13, 2024

Preserving Our Identity as Makers

Ted Gioia, in his superb Substack “The Honest Broker,” recently verified one of the most disturbing trends in technology today: the way the presence of AI-created art and images is destroying our access to human-made art and images. Continue Reading...