What new dilemmas are arising from the use of AI in the war in Iran? Why does the possibility that computational speed might be inversely related to human responsibility and practical wisdom introduce a new crucial factor for evaluating hybrid decision-making systems? [ATHENS VOICE, 2026]

2025 was the year we stopped asking «what’s going on with artificial intelligence?» and started learning how to live with it. This is a look back at a pivotal year, one in which AI captured the spotlight across politics, education, and industry, and, above all, made its first, still experimental, move into the workplace. [ATHENS VOICE, 2025]

Life in the second half of the chessboard is expected to be exciting and scary at the same time. New challenges and opportunities will soon give prominence to new masters of the game, new services, new products, new lifestyles –and we will all adapt and embrace these developments, making them an integral part of our daily lives, just about as we did in the past with cars, mobile phones and the internet.

According to Sartre, people experience a constant state of existential anxiety, because being "condemned" to freely define our own purpose, at every moment of our lives we must make choices that ultimately determine who we are.

The question "What is it like to be a machine?" refers to the subjective experience of a cognitive agent, that happens to be a thinking machine, consisting of microchips, transistors, cables, sensors etc. At first we may assume that the subjective experience of being a machine will be different from the subjective experience of being human, therefore a human cannot "experience" the world as a machine, neither a machine can "experience" the world as a human.

Professor Yannis Kontos, a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence research in Greece, talks to Alkis Gounaris for ATHENS VOICE about the historical development of AI, its research challenges, and its future. [ATHENS VOICE, 2026]

The shift into the AI age presents both significant risks and genuine opportunities. Which roles are most vulnerable to being lost, and which are likely to survive? How can Keynes help us maintain our composure and adopt a clear-sighted perspective on the evidence? To what extent is technophobia justified when confronted with a departure from the past? And, above all, what are the ethical and social implications of this transformation?  [ATHENS VOICE, 2025]

Justine is written just before the French Revolution. The novel reveals the author's contiguity with Thomas Hobbes, portraying the inherent evil nature of mankind. Contrary to his contemporary philosopher Jean - Jacques Rousseau, who considered that the nature of mankind is noble, de Sade defends hedonism as the “summum bonum” of a selfish and beyond morality human being.

The Cartesian meditations, platonic ideas, body-mind problem, philosophical theories of time, Escher's design paradoxes, and some ethical problems, compose the canvas of Christopher Nolan's new film titled: Inception. 

This essay, attempts to outline the philosophical basis of the Murray Bookchin’ s theory, the fundamental principles of social ecology and communalism and the main objections of "green party" environmentalists against the social ecology movement and vice versa.