Major AI companies are hiring philosophers to teach their systems right from wrong. But every civilization trusts different experts with its moral questions, and AI meant to serve Muslims may need to listen to scholars, not only philosophers.
There is a particular silence small business owners know: a phone ringing in an empty office after the lights are off. I built an AI receptionist to break it — and learned something about what it means to teach a machine to listen.
Over the past few months, a new style of short drama has spread very fast across Facebook and other social media platforms.…
A Chinese journalist tried to boycott American digital services for a single day — and discovered she was unable to function. The story is small. The structure it reveals is not.
My old professor used to say: “I hope we live long enough to see real AI.” We are living through that day now. The question is what happens after.
A working hypothesis: the secret to a poem’s reach in the Arabic world isn’t only what it says, but the meter it says it in.
The old colonialism arrived on ships. The new one arrives as a push notification — quieter, more convenient, and far more difficult to refuse.
People often ask what made humans different from animals.Was it intelligence? Tools? Consciousness? Emotions? I believe the answer is simpler — and…