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Rafael Hernández de Santiago

Rafael Hernández de Santiago, viscount of Espes, is a Spanish national residing in Saudi Arabia. He holds a doctorate in ethics and artificial intelligence, a master’s degree in international relations, and a certificate from the leadership program for public management at IESE. He has wide professional experience in general and institutional management, business development, international management, strategic management, and international relations, both in the private and public sectors.

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From free convenience to metered intelligence

The evolution of chatbots over the past decade reads less like a steady march of innovation and more like a cautionary tale about how quickly convenience can turn into dependency, and then into cost. 

August 06, 2026

The unpredictable horizon of the Singularity

“The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.” The reflection attributed to B. F. Skinner feels increasingly relevant as we approach what many describe as the technological frontier of our age: the Singularity. 

July 16, 2026

Noblesse oblige: when the only truth must prevail

In a previous article, I concluded that “the question is no longer whether media influences us, but how deeply, and to what extent we remain aware of it.”

June 04, 2026

The Medusa paradox: when intelligence outsources itself

In the mythology of Medusa, to look directly into her eyes was to risk petrification — to become stone, frozen in a moment of irreversible stillness. 

May 21, 2026

When algorithms run our relationships

By the time Carrie Bradshaw finished wondering whether we could ever truly know a man, the rest of us were already trying to decode an algorithm.

April 02, 2026

The real danger isn’t AI, it’s human stupidity

By the time you read this, someone, somewhere, will have blamed artificial intelligence for something profoundly human.

March 13, 2026