Civilizational Decline

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$Soviet constructivist graphic: a mechanical eye radiates over an abstracted globe amid fractured surveillance screens$

Jul 11, 20262 min

One Child Per Classroom: The United Nations Convenes to Count Artificial Intelligence's Victims

The first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance met in Geneva in July 2026. The evidence for AI-linked harm, the assembled experts concluded, was considerably more compelling than the evidence for AI-linked benefit.

Apr 20, 20264 min

Science Confirms Two Classes: Those Who Use AI, Those Who Are Used by It

A peer-reviewed paper in the journal Societies argues generative AI is splitting the public into two groups: a resilient minority who use it as a cognitive amplifier, and a dependent majority whose critical judgment quietly erodes. The paper, by Michael Gerlich, ties that divide to labor-market vulnerability and rising susceptibility to synthetic political persuasion.