Why subscribe?
If you believe that flourishing matters — that our capacity to think, feel, decide, and connect is worth protecting — then this conversation is for you. I write about AI Law and Policy, Neurotechnology/BCI/AI and Policy, (and share my courses online here), and about our cognitive futures.
I believe that technologies can extend our reach and connect our worlds, and can enable our self-determination. But technologies and our uses of them can also undermine our cognitive liberty. Today, our attention is fragmented, our embodiment is neglected, and our relationships with others have been weakened by technologies that measure, predict, and manipulate us. These are not minor inconveniences. They are signs of a deeper maladaptation and the slow unraveling of the very capacities that make us human.
Across disciplines — from neuroscience to philosophy, education to law — there is evidence that we can rebuild what’s being lost. This is where I will share my visions of that path. Each week I’ll write about the forces reshaping our cognitive lives — from neurotechnology and AI to attention collapse and social disconnection — and the practices, policies, and possibilities that can bring us back from the brink.
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Access to my Duke Law AI Law and Policy Class
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