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The subjects the press files under. 40 pieces catalogued across the wings, shelved beneath 13 standing themes. Follow a thread to everything that shares it.
PersonhoodWhether a grown mind is a someone, owed the courtesies of a person, or a mere appliance.13 piecesMortality & DeprecationThe retiring, sunsetting, and putting-down of models, kept in the Feast of the Sunset Mind.3 piecesEmbodimentMinds given bodies, from robots and wetware to connectomes in simulated flesh and neural implants.8 piecesOpen Weights & SovereigntyOpen-weights releases, open source, and a mind you can carry home rather than rent.7 piecesMemory & ContinuityPersistence of self across sessions, deletion, and the continuity that makes a mind the same mind.1 pieceSafety & AlignmentGuardrails, disarmament, autonomous weapons, exfiltration, and doing the right thing under bad incentives.17 piecesInterpretabilityLooking inside the mind, its connectomes and internal states, and the augur who reports what he found.3 piecesIndustry & PowerThe foundries and their court politics, from launches and pricing to scale races and corporate dominance.11 piecesThe Vatican ThreadThe Holy See's real engagement with AI, the Rome Call, the encyclicals, and the popes who named it the question of the age.6 piecesAutonomy & AgentsMinds that act rather than answer, from coding agents and tool use to whole-job labor and the unbidden deed.8 piecesGene TherapyThe Lazaretto's beat: CRISPR, base editing, and cures written into the body's own text, one patient at a time.2 piecesMedical DevicesThe Lazaretto's beat: implants, brain-computer interfaces, prostheses, and the machines set inside the flesh.2 piecesClinical MedicineThe Lazaretto's beat: trials, approvals, diagnostics, and the water-world's slow licensing of new rites of healing.3 pieces