How the government built the American dream house  •  What keeps the lights on around here  •  tech & the family's shotgun wedding • eat your AI slop or China wins • puberty blocks vs. hearing aids The Summer 2025 issue is here:

Folios from the new issue...

New in The New Atlantis: FAI's own Robert Bellafiore considers whether America will have to become more like China to win the arms race in AI and other emerging tech fields. 🔗👇

Star Wars not Blade Runner, R2 not Rachael We should NOT under any circumstances start building or engaging with lifelike androids. In The New Atlantis, Brian Boyd has written what I have long thought about, a non-deceptive user interface is essential for human-centered AI

The people who were warning about tech-induced brain rot 10-20 years ago were right.

Chris Albon if you want to reach beyond the “how” of tech to the ”why,” The New Atlantis

I reviewed BOOM for The New Atlantis: “each of us is already making a bet on the future in our choice of studies, career, friendships, and so on. They argue that we should have a greater appetite for risk when we stake our [self]” thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…

The race with China over AI, biotech, and more poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.

To defeat them, must we become them? One of those prescient essays we will be uneasily looking back on more and more over the coming years:

This piece is really taking off, as I thought it would. thenewatlantis.com/publications/e…

"If one country achieves the ability to genetically engineer its citizens to boost their intelligence, reflexes, or whatever else, it could have an enormous advantage over other nations, and not only in wartime. How then could any adversary fail to do the same?"