Several months ago, I argued that artificial intelligence raises ethical questions. The assumption that technological progress automatically produces human progress has appeared repeatedly throughout modern history. It was present in parts of the Enlightenment, resurfaced in certain strands of neoclassical economics, and continues to shape contemporary discussions surrounding artificial intelligence. Yet ethics may represent only part of the challenge posed by AI. A second an

Classical and especially neoclassical economic theories are built on the assumption that, under competitive market conditions, economic actors will allocate resources more efficiently. Yet today, particularly in the service and financial sectors, millions of jobs have emerged that appear meaningless, generate no social benefit, and are often regarded as unnecessary even by those who perform them. By analyzing the mechanisms through which these jobs arise in terms of corporate

The Philosopher Who Looked Beyond Capitalism Few thinkers anticipated the dilemmas of twenty-first-century political economy as clearly as André Gorz (1923–2007) did. Born in Vienna as Gérard Horst, Gorz became part of post-war France’s intellectual milieu, writing for Les Temps Modernes under the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre . Over time he fused existentialism, Marxism, and ecological thought into a critique that re-imagined what economics could be about: not growth or pr