A short essay seeking to highlight the issues around the area of identity, identity politics and to ask questions intended to help debate and discussion around this sensitive subject.
You can stop worrying about the danger of Artificial Intelligence taking over the world: it has already happened. The world is run by organizations - businesses, multi-national corporations - which operate according to their own systems and logic.
It is arguable that the fundamental change which took place between the ancient world and the modern world was the transition from the rule of a dictator to the rule of law.
When considering society, you can't usefully talk about freedom purely in the abstract - you need to talk about more specific freedoms: who should be free to do what, and when?
