Spirit Omega, Play Theory, and the Human Future Beyond Work. Daniel Kokotajlo and his colleagues recently published AI 2040: Plan A, a detailed scenario for how humanity might slow the race towards superintelligence and retain some control over its own future.

In a recent lecture at Oxford, Yuval Noah Harari imagined the life of a child born in 2026. The child’s first teacher and closest confidant may be AI; the first romantic attachment may even be to one. Over time, that child may spend more hours with artificial intelligence than with parents, siblings or friends.

From the Bodies of Lust, Caution to the Distance of Wong Kar-wai. Some of cinema’s most erotic scenes place sex openly before us. Bodies are naked, entangled and impossible to ignore. Others contain almost no physical contact at all, yet are no less charged with desire.