Topic · 3 articles

Ethics and Responsibility

Who answers for the systems we build, and what they do to the people inside them.

Orders of Cybernetics

Third-Order Cybernetics

A contested and still-forming idea. Four proposals for what comes after the observer, and what they have in common.

The Editors 27 October 2026

Ex Machinis

Why We Need Cybernetics in the Age of AI

AI systems are feedback systems embedded in larger feedback systems. Five cybernetic questions that today's AI debate keeps circling without naming.

The Editors 16 October 2026

People

Norbert Wiener

Child prodigy, MIT mathematician, wartime engineer, and the first scientist to refuse military work on moral grounds after 1945. The life of the man who named cybernetics.

The Editors 9 October 2026