A thread through the archive · 86 essays
State capacity, public administration and the institutions that put technology to work.
Search within this topicOn estrategIA’s third anniversary, Fernando Nieto Lobato examines accelerating AI progress and the political preparation needed to protect rights and share its benefits.
A historical account of GPT-6 Astra and an interactive municipal planning experiment, examining what better AI capabilities mean for public explanation and judgement.
Pablo Martín Diez reviews José Ignacio Latorre’s proposal for a social contract encompassing nature, humanity and AI, examining legitimacy and concentrated power.
Seven political lessons from the 2026 summer fiction: meaningful oversight, public choices, autonomy, accountability, resilience, attention and a shared reality.
A fictional public consultation explores how personalised explanations can make a policy accessible while hiding the common choices citizens need to debate.
When AI makes political accusations cheap, a fictional MP discovers how the competition for attention can displace serious public scrutiny.
A story about an automated public-service contractor, and why a human signature means little without the authority to overrule the system.
Summer fiction about allocating scarce public AI capacity during a heat emergency, revealing hidden dependencies and unequal local resilience.
Summer fiction about an older woman, an AI care assistant and rebuilding human support without surrendering control of life at home.
Summer fiction about an outgoing minister whose AI memory must be divided between institutional continuity and personal privacy.
Summer fiction set in 2032: a mayor whose administration runs smoothly with AI must choose between two legitimate but incompatible public needs.
The first summer historIA of 2026: a fictional council officer in 2032 confronts the difference between a recorded human signature and meaningful oversight.
The global debate around Magnifica humanitas: AI, moral authority, technological power, Anthropic and the common good.
Juan Segundo Hevia examines how AI companies move from general tools into industry workflows, and what this means for regulation and sovereignty.
How democratic institutions can plan under AI uncertainty through staged commitments, flexible structures and systems for detecting change.
Two principles for public AI strategy towards 2030: governing emerging capabilities and ensuring meaningful universal access.
Singapore's foreign minister and a personal AI memory system: technical competence, institutional learning and the political value of showing the code.
An April 2026 comparison of image models through public communication experiments, with the original prompts and generated examples.
Román Robles Valades sets out how municipalities can adopt AI responsibly, connecting staff development, data sovereignty and better public services.
Three alternative AI futures for 2030 — plateau, sustained ascent and rapid take-off — and why strategic preparation must work across all three.
AI is lowering the barriers to public scrutiny. The question is how democratic institutions will respond to these new civic capabilities.
Eight Fundación Botín programme participants examine AI-amplified electoral disinformation in Chile and Argentina and the institutional responses Latin America needs.
Sofía García Morales reports from MUNICIP-IA on practical municipal adoption, institutional judgement, digital sovereignty and the political implications of AI.
Three first-person experiments with autonomous agents: a political comic, a Windows speech analyser and a Stoic quotations app.
Carlos López Ariztegui argues that AI creates value only when organisations and universities rethink their judgement, processes and culture.
A political reading of Dario Amodei’s technological adolescence and Claude’s Constitution: institutional wisdom, oversight and the limits of corporate sovereignty.
Harvey Sánchez-Restrepo explains how ABC combines contextual understanding and adaptive AI assessment to support literacy across Latin America and the Caribbean.
What Microsoft’s 2025 adoption report suggests about institutional strategy, the widening digital divide and the challenge of turning AI use into public value.
A historical assessment of CES 2026: universal AI access, Nvidia's physical AI infrastructure, on-device assistants, autonomous agriculture and preventive care.
A critical review of political responses to AI in 2025 and five demands for 2026: state capacity, scaled services, literacy, shared truth and a new social contract.
An interactive yearbook of estrategIA's 2025 coverage, with a practical explanation of how its NotebookLM collection and multimedia summaries were created.
Ten historical image-generation demonstrations, with full prompts, retained examples and the author's warning to verify generated data.
Pablo Martín Diez reflects on CONAED Mexico 2025, educational divides and the teacher's role in cultivating curiosity, judgement and civic independence.
Gemini 3 Pro's launch results, an unexpected calendar error and a practical electoral-system demo illustrate the importance of informed use.
Javier Battilana Urbieta considers how conversational AI can extend the tradition of advisers who help leaders reflect, decide and act.
A November 2025 demonstration of building and refining a press-release-generator prototype through conversation, with the complete visible prompts and outputs.
Five perspectives on AI’s future—from geopolitical urgency and technical control to economic incentives and relational ethics—and the case for addressing both future and present harms.
A reading of State of AI 2025 for public policy, covering reasoning, energy, geopolitics, commercial adoption and safety, with the report’s full prediction slides.
Ignacio Martín Granados explores where AI creates public value, the risks of action and inaction, and the conditions for trustworthy government adoption.
A second-anniversary comparison of AI adoption, task capabilities, falling costs, investment and public perceptions, preserving the October 2025 evidence and forecasts.
Roxana Mazzola argues that effective public-sector AI depends on digital processes, interoperable data and stronger state capacity.
An examination of preliminary evidence that generative AI reduces entry-level hiring, and possible responses in training, employment incentives and social protection.
Ignacio Martín Granados examines a global study of AI use in the 2024 elections and its lessons for campaigns, public trust and democratic integrity.
Practical tests of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, from political posters and public spaces to editing photographs and combining visual elements.
On estrategIA's hundredth issue, Fernando reflects on the widening gap between AI progress and political engagement.
Pep Martorell explains why computing infrastructure, scientific talent and international cooperation are essential to avoid irrelevance.
An August 2025 assessment of GPT-5's launch, reasoning access, rollout problems and practical value for government.
A Gemini 2.5 Pro story imagines a rapid AGI transition and the consequences of failing to prepare institutions and the social contract.
How collective forecasting can inform AI policy, and why probabilities require critical judgement rather than blind trust.
Sam Altman’s vision of superintelligence is read alongside Amodei’s employment warnings, Bengio’s alignment concerns and the political question of who benefits.
Gabriela Ortega Jarrín reports from Madrid on public services, sovereign cloud, AI skills, regulation and competition between cloud providers.
Pablo Martín Diez reviews Adela Cortina's case for an ethical, democratic approach to AI grounded in human dignity, practical wisdom and public dialogue.
Mauricio Pilleux describes an AI assistance system for Chilean women facing gender-based violence abroad and the incremental approach behind its development.
On the eve of International Workers' Day, a look at humanoid robotics, its possible effects on jobs and the policies needed to manage the transition.
Stanford's AI Index 2025 through the lens of regulation, public investment, geopolitical competition, responsible AI and public trust.
A Holy Week reflection on Antiqua et Nova, the Vatican's view of AI, and the place of human dignity, solidarity and philosophical judgement in technological change.
Thirty-one preserved images illustrate ten historical GPT-4o experiments in visual political communication, with complete prompts and accessible English text.
An argument for debating universal basic income before large-scale AI disruption, covering its history, purposes, funding, uncertainties and social meaning.
MWC 2025's AI announcements and the implications for mobile networks, public administration, regulation and future services.
A March 2025 test of OpenAI, Perplexity and xAI research tools on electoral systems and Spanish polling, with complete historical evaluation tables.
AI-assisted scientific discovery, from Google's Co-scientist to new biomedical models, and the political questions raised by accelerating research.
An assessment of the Paris AI Action Summit’s investment announcements, competing regulatory approaches and shift towards coordinated action.
A review of Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato’s Superagency, its qualified optimism and its political case for measured regulation.
Five dimensions of AI policy at the start of Trump's second term: regulation, industry, geopolitical competition, advisers and social consequences.
Five policy requests for 2025: make AI a priority, develop it safely and quickly, protect people, redesign institutions and plan for the long term.
Pablo Martín Diez outlines five stages of organisational AI adoption, from focused pilots and an internal team to staff training, strategy and communication.
Fernando Nieto Lobato argues that rapid advances in AI reasoning demand serious preparation by governments, businesses and individuals, including for a possible transformation of work.
A November 2024 outlook on deregulation, ideological bias, energy, competition with China, military applications and Elon Musk's possible influence on US AI policy.
Fernando Domínguez Sardou examines AI Steve's parliamentary campaign and what generative AI could contribute to the relationship between citizens and their representatives.
Seven themes drawn from the summer fiction series: efficiency, human connection, ethical judgement, democratic control and collaboration with AI.
A mid-2024 assessment of private investment, public-sector readiness and the widening gap between AI development and preparations for its social consequences.
A historical report from estrategIA's first event, covering AI regulation, public services, work and education through the speakers' contributions.
Pilar Mairal Medina examines AI and work beyond automation, from reskilling and organisational culture to interdisciplinary collaboration and a new work ethic.
Fernando Ujaldón examines Singapore’s national AI strategy, public-service projects, workforce preparation and lessons for other countries.
A March 2024 experiment analysing the full AI Act with language models, preserving seven questions and answers, context-window tests and observed costs.
A historical comparison of Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 using two political and public-policy prompts, with all four responses preserved in full.
Gustavo Fedi examines the distinction between generative and predictive AI, the challenges of measurement and six emerging applications in public affairs.
Employment, disinformation and science at Davos 2024, and the tension between AI optimism, regulation and inequality.
Holograms, real-time interpreting and portable AI devices at CES 2024, considered through their possible uses in politics and public administration.
A historical exploration of five types of GPT assistants for politics and government at the launch of OpenAI’s GPT Store.
An examination of the opportunities, disinformation risks and safeguards surrounding AI in the 2024 US elections.
The December 2023 provisional AI Act agreement, its biometric safeguards and the debate over Europe's ability to combine regulation with innovation.
A contemporaneous account of OpenAI's November 2023 leadership crisis and the tensions between research, commercial deployment, safety and corporate power.
Bill Gates’s vision of personal AI agents prompts an exploration of hypothetical applications in public services, participation, policy analysis and scrutiny.
Three inventions selected by Time in 2023 show how AI can support wildfire detection, wildlife protection and urban drone security.
Mustafa Suleyman's ten steps for containing advanced technologies, and what they demand of governments and international cooperation.