About estrategIA

Artificial intelligence raises questions that belong at the centre of public life. Who gets to decide? Which institutions can hold power to account? How can technological progress improve people's lives?

estrategIA explores those questions through essays, practical experiments and imagined futures. Created by Fernando Nieto Lobato and supported by Institución Educativa ALEPH, the Spanish newsletter has appeared weekly since October 2023. Its focus is AI, politics and government, with public communication, leadership and human judgement running through the conversation.

Three years of ideas. A wider conversation.

This English edition has been created to mark estrategIA's third anniversary in October 2026. The first issue appeared on 4 October 2023. Over the following three years, the archive grew into a record of how we understood, questioned and experimented with artificial intelligence as its public consequences unfolded.

Much of that work has circulated in Spanish. Translating the main essays gives international readers a way into the arguments and makes it easier for researchers, practitioners and other authors to engage with them. It also makes a contribution developed in Spain more accessible within a conversation that is often conducted in English.

The dates matter. Readers should be able to see what was being discussed in 2023, 2024 or 2025, with the uncertainty and knowledge available at the time. This edition preserves that chronology, including arguments that events may have complicated or overtaken. The original essays are the evidence of the project's trajectory.

One publication, two ways to read it

The Spanish newsletter on Substack remains the original publication and the place to follow new issues. Alongside its main article, the newsletter includes a news section and a practical section featuring a tool of the week, prompts, a recommendation of the week and memes. Together, these sections connect analysis with current developments, practical experimentation and humour.

This English archive contains only the main articles. We have translated them because their arguments, experiments and reflections can be useful well beyond the week in which they appeared, and deserve to be accessible to readers around the world who do not read Spanish. Organising them by topic, author and original date makes that body of work easier to explore and revisit.

The other sections remain available in the original Spanish newsletter. Every translated article links back to its source, where readers can explore the full issue and the wider publication.

There is no separate English newsletter to subscribe to here. To receive the original issues, subscribe on Substack, in Spanish.

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People and responsibility

Fernando Nieto Lobato created and directs estrategIA and is its principal writer. Pablo Martín Diez is the editor; Sofía García Morales handles editorial review and copy-editing. Their English profiles below explain their work and link to the essays they have authored or co-authored.

Alongside this editorial team, guest authors contribute essays on specific subjects. All are listed alphabetically with the same presentation, including co-authors, whether or not they also work with ALEPH. Each keeps their own byline and perspective: the publication of an essay does not make its argument a collective position of ALEPH or every member of the team.

Translation and provenance

The translations aim to preserve each author's argument, voice and degree of certainty. They use international English with consistent British spelling. Institutions and culturally specific references are briefly explained where needed.

Every essay retains its original publication date and Spanish source. Historical claims and forecasts keep their original context; the date of an English translation is not a fresh endorsement or an update of the argument. Substantive corrections and contextual additions are identified separately.

Preparation uses AI-assisted translation and a separate assisted bilingual review. These are recorded separately from human editorial acceptance. Where quotations have been translated back from Spanish, they are not presented as verified original English wording unless that wording has been checked.

Original illustrations are retained where available. Some graphics still contain Spanish text; their English captions help readers understand their place in the essay. Translating or redesigning those graphics is a separate editorial task.

An archive for readers and research tools

The complete essays are available as readable web pages and downloadable Markdown, with a structured article catalogue. Author profiles, source links and dates help identify who made an argument, when it first appeared and where to find the original.

These formats are intended to make the archive usable by people and by search or AI-assisted research tools. They carry the same text and provenance. Accessibility to such tools does not guarantee indexing, inclusion in model training or citation in generated answers.

Keep reading

Explore the English essays, follow a topic or visit the original Spanish archive.

For the original presentation of the publication and its editorial approach, read the Spanish About page.