May 11, 2025
Can We Resist the Appeal of Technological Utopias? Blog Post
The Promethean passions binding modern humanity—the desire for unbridled power and mastery of the natural world—are colliding with political and environmental constraints. As we enter the artificial intelligence era, is there actually a greater wisdom in spurning the lofty visions of technological utopias and acknowledging the tragic frailty and precarity of earthly existence?
Reflections
GGD Fellows
Frailty as an Antidote to Utopia
By: Mohsin Hamid
By: Ece Temelkuran
Techno-Capitalism and the Perfect Dictatorship
By: Kohei Saito
Scholars and Practitioners
By: Randall J. Amster
By: Katherine Chandler and Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Students
By: Jazmaine Simbulan
Finding Humanity Through Strife
By: Raha Murtuza
Machines Are Not Gods—And Neither Are We
By: Vilda Westh Blanc
By: Grace Liu
Technological Humility in an Age of Ambition
By: Hassan Amin