Ginevra Lily Davis
AI / Philosophy
"The Silicon Man." Arena Books. Buy a "Silicon" print book here.
"The Best Possible World." Arena. Profile of Noor Siddiqui from Orchid Health. 2024.
"The Prophet of Doom Gets Positive." Arena. Review of Nick Bostrom's Deep Utopia. 2024.
"How Feminism Ends." Review of Emmanuel Todd's Linages of the Feminine. American Affairs. 2024.
Documenting Nihilism
"The New Atlantis." The Miami Native. 2023. (Website defunct, RIP)
"Internet People." Palladium. 2022.
"When the Stagnation Goes Virtual." Palladium. 2022.
Social Criticism
"When Every Child is a Choice." Palladium. 2023.
"What Genius Looks Like." Profile of mathematician James Glimm. Palladium. 2023.
"Stanford's War on Social Life." Palladium. 2022. Sidney Award for Best Essay of 2022 in the New York Times.
Aesthetic Musings
"Stein Hoisting." Review of marathon reading of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans. The New Criterion. 2024.
"In Defense of Art Basel." Review of Art Basel Miami Beach. The New Criterion. 2024.
"The Un-Sexiness of Sex Positivity." Tablet. 2023.
Talking
"The Problem of Humanity." The Students. 2026.
"The Hard Problem of AI Alignment." MC0001. 2026.
"The Attractors of Intelligence." The Leaking Timeline. 2026.
"Lafayette Company Discussion on Campus Free Speech." CSPAN. 2023.
Slides (Talks with No Videos)
"Cosmic Alignment," Worthy Successor Symposium, 2025. (Wired coverage here)
Ginevra is a writer and philosopher living in the Bay Area.
Currently thinking about: meta-ethics, ASI, whether the universe has a direction, and becoming okay with the future (More to come).
I like people and also good things that are not people.
Director of AI Ethics at Florens Institute (stealth).
Senior Editor at Arena Magazine.
B.S., Symbolic Systems, Stanford. (Technically on leave)
Fun Fact: Named after this painting.
