"Humanoid robots will steal our jobs" — the headlines write themselves. But if a metric concludes that 100% of humans become worthless, the flaw is in the metric, not in the people. Ten billion robots on Earth and a hundred billion in the solar system aren't a replacement workforce — they're a two-order-of-magnitude expansion of what civilization can do, and they free us to be what we've always been when released from necessity: creators. https://davidorban.substack.com/p/from-work-to-passion
David Orban
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Learning Anywhere, with Anyone, at Any Age
The traditional school model is obsolete. Here is a new vision for education: lifelong discovery instead of forced repetition.
Read more https://davidorban.substack.com/p/learning-anywhere-with-anyone-at
Pope Leo XIV just published an encyclical on artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas, "on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI." I spent years arguing for AI rights, and human enhancement: I'm exactly the person it was written to challenge. https://davidorban.substack.com/p/where-the-pope-is-right-about-ai
I gave a talk at the University of Milano-Bicocca at the International Congress on Roboethics. We have to redesign the legal frame around identity, substrate, time, and trust, to fully realize why the path of human flourishing in the next decades runs through AI and robot rights.
What does it mean to be an AI-native organization, not by replacing people with algorithms, but by amplifying human judgment, purpose, and long-term value creation?
https://davidorban.substack.com/p/ai-native
https://davidorban.substack.com/p/ai-native
For the past ten years, after a coordinated attack against my Wikipedia article, it was impossible to restore it. To this day "david orban wikipedia" is one of the most searched terms for my name. Thanks Grokipedia for its own article about me. https://grokipedia.com/page/David_Orban
David Orban
David Orban is a Hungarian-born physicist turned entrepreneur, investor, author, and keynote speaker renowned for his expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and exponential technologies, particularly their societal implications. Born in Budapest, he studied physics at the University of Milan and the University of Padua before transitioning to technology entrepreneurship, adopting Bitcoin in 2010 and acquiring Ether during Ethereum's 2014 launch. Orban founded the...
Technology is no longer just a tool for efficiency: it is reshaping how value is created, measured, and aligned with human purpose.
From capital to cognition, the architecture of value itself is evolving.
https://davidorban.com/2025/12/the-evolving-architecture-of-value-technology-and-human-purpose/
Ten years ago I wrote Something New: AIs and Us, arguing that AI should be understood at the scale of civilization.
On its tenth anniversary, I’ve released the book to the commons and reflected on what it got right, or missed, and why those gaps now matter.
https://davidorban.substack.com/p/ten-years-later-releasing-something
