1. OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas AI Browser: Intelligent Agents Replace Traditional Search, Redefining Web Experience
A clear-eyed walkthrough of Atlas’s debut, this essay tours OpenAI’s new Chromium-based browser—built around agentic workflows that let ChatGPT “click,” “scroll,” and “remember” for you—while probing the privacy trade-offs and security hazards that come with handing your browsing context to an AI.
“Even with optional “memories” and parental controls, Atlas invites a fundamental rethink of browser trust boundaries.” (design-drifter.com)
2. Those declared ‘monsters’ are ejected from the human family
Deepak Varuvel Dennison
Aeon Essays, 24 October 2025
A philosophical excavation of how digital systems label and exclude “other” knowledges, revealing the moral risks when AI’s token-based representations turn human experiences into statistical outliers.
“In our rush to automate, we risk consigning entire traditions to the margins—casting them as un-human ‘monsters’ in the algorithmic narrative.” (aeon.co)
3. Learning to not-know: From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor’s day. They should learn to embrace it
Zoe Cunniffe
Aeon Essays, 23 October 2025
A richly reported meditation on medical uncertainty, tracing the invisible burden that doctors carry when data fails them—and how embracing ambiguity can forge deeper trust in the clinic.
“By admitting ‘I don’t know,’ physicians can transform a clinical impasse into a shared journey of discovery.” (aeon.co)
4. Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?
Tim Bayne
Aeon Essays, October 2025
A 3,100-word tour de force that reframes the “distribution problem” of consciousness through the twin metaphors of free-form jazz and cetacean biology—arguing that our concept of awareness may be more conventional than we imagine.
“Perhaps consciousness is less a manifest essence and more a language-shaped convention—like jazz, whose boundaries were drawn, redrawn and debated long after its first notes.” (aeon.co)
5. A(I)nimism: Re-enchanting the World Through AI-Mediated Object Interaction
Diana Mykhaylychenko et al.
arXiv preprint, 29 September 2025
A speculative-design manifesto on how AI agents can revive animistic relationships with everyday things—inviting empathy by giving objects “personas” through GPT-4 Vision, voice, and embodied portals.
“By treating devices as ‘beings’ with evolving narratives, A(I)nimism opens a space to question responsibility and agency at the interface of the mundane and the magical.” (arxiv.org)