Since the end of the cold war, we witnessed a series of events in which revolutionary policy changes were justified with a recall to imperialism. We first experienced the Russian attacks on Georgia, followed by the ones on Ukraine and hybrid war fare. In the meantime, we saw the Brexit in which the longing for being the centre of power was stronger than the rationale of being part of a huge and nearby market. Recently we can add Trump and his MAGA policies in which the already enormous space of the United States is to be enlarged with Canada, Greenland and a decisive say in the whole Western Hemisphere. Even states with a neglectable number of people such as Isreal openly aim for a Greater Israel, again based on historical imperialistic justifications. These four actors do not hesitate to use violence to reach their ambitions, be it literally such as in the case of Russia and Isreal or through exertion such as the US and in a lesser form the UK and even France. The arguments of ...
Artificial Intelligence is on the rise, whether you search the internet, ask questions to the customer service online or use the driving tools of a modern car, we are already using AI in many applications. The solutions being build are focussing on automating human skills such as programming, translating, improving texts, making images or even videos and music. The solutions bear, as with any technology, risks in them. Programs might not be tested well, internally not understood, making them vulnerable for hacking or errors, translations might play down the incentive to learn a foreign language, text improving on learning spelling and grammar result in a similar downplay of our own skills. Image generation might reduce our joy to go out in the real world and make our own images or videos. Besides this, all these techniques blur the interaction between the author and the reader as this relationship is compromised by the tools being used. Many ‘readers’ also use summary AI tools thu...