“If I had a magic wand, I would freeze AI where it is.” NYU philosopher Jeff Sebo on the risks of AI, whether machines could become conscious, animal welfare, and the responsibilities we may one day owe to digital minds.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Originally published in Aposto · September 13, 2026
Read →MySpace’s owners want to bring it back — but maybe what we miss isn’t the platform. It’s a version of the internet, and of ourselves, that no longer exists. On nostalgia, algorithms, and the internet we lost.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Originally published in Aposto · August 10, 2026
Read →A summary of a Reuters Institute essay by Agnes Stenbom Swedling: the real threat to journalism isn’t automation, but a value system that lets speed and scale outrank human judgment and public value.
Summarised by Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Source: Reuters Institute · May 19, 2026
Read →A self-funded documentary follows AI-consciousness researcher Cameron Berg to the frontier of the strangest question of our time — the film we chose to open Humanarium, screening July 6 at Farm.One with a live Q&A.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Humanarium · July 2026
Read →Notes on designing Humanarium — paper, ink, and the colour of oxytocin. Why a place built to protect human connection had to feel made by a hand, not rendered by a machine.
Read →When Pope Leo XIV delivered his first major encyclical, he was flanked not by a cardinal but by an Anthropic co-founder. A reading of the 43,000-word Magnifica Humanitas — and why the Vatican treats artificial intelligence as a question of civilization, not engineering.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Originally published in Aposto News · May 31, 2026
Read →Daniel Roher's documentary The AI Doc gathers the technology's loudest optimists and sharpest critics at one table. On "apocaloptimism," who profits from it, and whether we will watch the future as spectacle or take notes on a process that includes us.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Originally published in Aposto News · May 15, 2026
Read →AI speaks in a female voice and promises to make life easier, yet shows a different face when it comes to real women. From cinema and deepfakes to hiring and the climate crisis, a look at the future this technology imagines for women.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Originally published in Aposto News · October 13, 2026
Read →At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Geoffrey Hinton proposed giving artificial intelligence a maternal instinct. The idea reopens the debate around emotional AI — and what it means to build machines that imitate care.
By Çiğdem Öztabak · Founder · Originally published in Aposto News · August 22, 2025
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