The Daily Cyborg

Issue No. 032 · June 1, 2026

VISUAL ELEVATOR MUSIC AND REAL COSTS

142,000 tech workers laid off to fund $700 billion in AI infrastructure, and researchers watch AI flatten culture into 'visual elevator music.' Meanwhile, a billion protein stru...

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Issue No. 031 · May 29, 2026

The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg!

A Wharton-trained Jesuit argues that Pope Leo's AI encyclical is the sharpest Catholic critique of capitalism ever written, while DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves nine Erdős p...

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Issue No. 030 · May 28, 2026

THE HAND YOU KEEP ON THE WHEEL

A RAND model maps the point where human agency loss becomes irreversible. A Nobel laureate says AGI arrives by 2030 and your salary depends on being the person people want to ha...

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Issue No. 029 · May 27, 2026

CHOOSING WHICH PARTS TO KEEP

Anthropic's co-founder stands in the Vatican and calls for 'informed critics' outside the industry's incentive structure while 99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs and 65% of wo...

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Issue No. 028 · May 26, 2026

THE POPE DEMANDS AI BE DISARMED

Pope Leo XIV issues a 42,300-word encyclical declaring AI 'demands to be disarmed' while Google's AI Search crosses a billion monthly users and Novo Nordisk bets its pipeline on...

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