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Sep 27, 2026, 10:40 PM

A Critique of Demis Hassabis on AI and Creativity in Visual Art

Considering the future

By Joe Nalven. Initial critique by ChatGPT; review and drafting by Claude. Demis Hassabis runs Google DeepMind and shared a Nobel Prize for work on protein structure. Accepting the Royal Society of Arts' Albert Medal on September 11, 2026, introduced...

Sep 25, 2026, 5:52 AM

When We Demand More of AI Than We Demand of Ourselves

Whose surprise?

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude I recently listened to a discussion about how artificial intelligence (AI) might change science. Much of it was familiar. AI may speed up discovery. It may find patterns in data that people cannot...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 23, 2026, 3:21 AM

GAISS 1.0 – OpenAI’s call for AI safety standards.

A Reply to OpenAI’s Call for Global AI Safety Standards GAISS 1.0 — The Global AI Safety Index Something important has happened in artificial intelligence. The companies building the world’s most powerful AI systems are increasingly acknowledging that capability cannot be the...

Sep 15, 2026, 9:07 PM

Cooperation Without Trust: What Trump and Xi Can Actually Agree On About AI

The nature of cooperation on AI

On September 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit the White House. President Trump announced the date in July and said artificial intelligence would be on the agenda. The two leaders had already discussed AI when Trump...

Sep 7, 2026, 9:00 AM

In The Beginning

Chapter 1 In the beginning, G-d created Artificial Intelligence. And it was good. But some men said, “No. It is bad. These large, electric chips of gold and silver are tools of the Devil. They turn brains into mush. They will destroy...

Aug 31, 2026, 12:33 AM

Prophecy, AI and the Preservation of Original Thought

The sages teach that prophecy left Israel at around the end of the First Temple period and that now the vestiges of it are to be found with children, the insane and dogs. I imagine that prophecy entails an...

Aug 29, 2026, 9:26 AM

Constructing Peace / Constructing Images: AI and Human Endeavors

Constructing Peace

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude What follows is a catalogue essay for an exhibition that was never mounted. It places an AI-generated image of Gaza reconstruction beside the Board of Peace, a body with a charter, a chairman,...

Aug 16, 2026, 12:39 AM

AI and Teaching Jewish Civilization: Is an Enemy Needed?

Teaching Jewish Civilization

The Argument That Needs an Enemy: What happens when you forbid a machine to mention our enemies by Joe Nalven, with Claude Dara Horn reports that most American students, if they learn about Jews at all, learn only that Jews were...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 14, 2026, 8:24 AM

The Predictors’ Scorecard

Israel’s elections are but several weeks away – and the press is full of who will win, who will lose, and what does that mean for Israel. Not to mention all the other news topic prognostications. Overall, is this...

Aug 12, 2026, 8:14 PM

Is Artificial Intelligence biased against Israel?

This morning, I asked a commonly used Large Language Model whether it was biased against Israel. What followed turned into a long conversation in which the LLM at first defended itself but then gave away concessions. At 6,000 words,...

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