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Opinion

What happens when human decisions pass through an algorithm.

A speech-shaped prism casts two political shadows over a public assembly as a hand adjusts the control.
External essay

The (cultural) battle over AI

The makers of AI assistants promise political neutrality. The US president and the owner of one of those companies have begun explaining, each in his own way, what they mean by it.

Rodrigo Castillo Murillo · 8 min
Four assistants cast different shadows across a political compass whose grid is tilted by a human hand.
External essay

Twelve axes, four assistants and no shared idea of neutrality

Codex answered 60 statements; Grok answered 240. Claude and Google’s assistant refused to tick boxes, but not to decide which arguments deserved attention. The assignments were not identical, so this was neither a ranking nor a controlled experiment. It does leave a harder question for anyone asking an AI for political advice: what does an assistant decide when it decides what to tell you?

Rodrigo Castillo Murillo · 9 min
Column published elsewhere · Rodrigo Castillo Murillo · Francisco Figueroa Ogalde

Democracy Confronts the Algorithm

How do you challenge a public decision when the answer is “the algorithm says so”? Rodrigo Castillo Murillo and Francisco Figueroa Ogalde in El Dínamo.

22 June 2026 · 2 min

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Column published elsewhere · Rodrigo Castillo Murillo · Francisco Figueroa Ogalde

Crime and the Algorithm

You tell a chatbot something. Who can read it later? Rodrigo Castillo Murillo and Francisco Figueroa Ogalde in El Mostrador.

23 August 2026 · 2 min

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Opinion

We Are the Neanderthals

A superior intelligence does not choose for us what deserves to be preserved.

Rodrigo Castillo Murillo · 3 min