Journal
All Essays
A cultural journal by Doris S. Niu.
The journal
Essays on aesthetics, inheritance, creation, intelligence, responsibility, and the human good in the age of AI.
What should endure when our power to create becomes almost limitless?
What does knowledge ask of the person who carries it?
How should we live with intelligence that can increasingly act beside us?
Writing
All Essays
Essay 005The Light of Tomorrow — Before We Go to MarsOn power, compassion, and the kind of humanity we carry into the future.Essay 004After Intelligence: Have We Mistaken What Education Is For?When knowledge and intelligence are no longer scarce, what should education truly cultivate?Essay 003AGI: A New Intelligence — or an Unprecedented Aggregate of Human Delusive Thought?When machines learn humanity, what must humanity learn to see in itself?Essay 002What Makes Art Good?"Live as though today were the last day of your life."Essay 001Writing for HumankindOn words, motive, and the responsibility of writing beyond applause in the age of AI.