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AI & Society By Niklas S. Osterman

When Optimization Escapes Context

The idea that artificial intelligence will become “powerful” is no longer the point. The more relevant question is how systems behave when optimization is scaled beyond direct human understanding.

Culture By Niklas S. Osterman

Why history is often sanitized.

We are taught history in a way that feels reassuringly distant. Two world wars, villains clearly labeled, good and evil sharply separated, a moral lesson stapled neatly to the end.

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