After Babel is a free weekly newsletter by Jonathan Haidt and his team examining how digital technology is reshaping childhood and society, with practical guidance for parents and others. Recent issues cover ancient wisdom in modern psychology, accountability for Meta's harms to kids, and research from a new NYU Stern lab.
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Essays and updates exploring how people can live humanely amid rapid technological change, especially AI, with a mix of speculative scenarios, historical analogies and fine art. It also covers news and interviews around the author's dystopian novel The Last Upheaval.
A Substack by Dr. Sean Tobin that reflects on artificial intelligence through faith and psychology, covering topics such as the Vatican's encyclical on AI, machine consciousness and the arrival of personal AI agents. It also includes practical guidance for people who feel overwhelmed and want to start using AI tools.
A personal Substack of essays, cultural commentary and fiction by a New York writer and former branding professional. Readers get voicey reflections on screen addiction, corporate work culture and everyday life, plus updates on her first novel.
The Elysian is a newsletter of essays exploring a utopian future, with pieces on Chinese fantasy fiction as a vehicle for political imagination, e-book access and library reform, and how phones change social life. Readers get thoughtful, opinionated essays that connect culture, technology and society to speculative visions of a better world.
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