Monika Kim’s novel The Eyes Are the Best Part opens with the sentence, “Umma tells me that the eyes are the best part.” When translating the novel into Turkish, I rendered this as, “Umma, bana gözlerinin en güzel yeri olduğunu söyler.” At first glance, translating “Umma” as annem, or “my mother,” might have seemed like the most natural choice. The Korean word means mother and its Turkish equivalent was clear. Yet on the same page, only a few sentences apart, the same woman wa

The European AI Act is the first comprehensive legal framework adopted by the European Union to regulate artificial intelligence systems. Officially known as Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Act was adopted on 13 June 2024, published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 12 July 2024, and entered into force on 1 August 2024. Its provisions will apply gradually, with most of the Act becoming fully applicable as of 2 August 2026. This law is not a flawless text that an

In recent years, I have worked on international platforms such as Outlier, Invisible, and micro1. These companies rely on human expertise to improve artificial intelligence models and work with specialists from different fields around the world on a project basis. On these platforms, I took on three different roles. As a tasker, I produced the texts that AI models needed. As an evaluator, I assessed the generated content in terms of linguistic accuracy, contextual fit, and cu

Around two and a half thousand years ago, Plato described humans' tendency to mistake shadows for reality in his allegory of the cave. Today, the shadows on the cave wall have been replaced by screens. We live amid social media feeds, algorithms, artificial intelligence tools, and endlessly multiplying digital content. We are closer to information than ever before; yet perhaps for the first time, our relationship with reality has become this complicated. And this complexity i

The Neuroscience of a Good Morning Text, Happiness Research, and the New Frontier of Human–AI Relationships The human brain is not as individualistic as we often imagine. In recent years, neuroscience has made it increasingly clear that a significant portion of our brain evolved for one purpose above all others: connecting with other people. Recognizing faces, interpreting tone of voice, understanding intentions, and maintaining social bonds are not secondary functions of the

One of the most interesting contradictions around artificial intelligence in Turkey is that individual curiosity and adaptation are high. People are trying tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and similar systems; they are beginning to use them in daily life, asking them to write texts, summarize information, generate ideas, and help with planning. On the institutional side, however, it is difficult to speak of the same speed. Especially for SMEs, lack of expertise, cost,

When we talk about artificial intelligence, we are still trapped in a major misconception. Most people see AI purely as a technical system: code, data, algorithms, speed, automation. Yet the large language models transforming our lives today — ChatGPT, Claude, and similar systems — are actually built on human language itself, and this reality is creating one of the most important turning points in the history of technology. For the first time, the center of technology is no l

Sometimes, while reading a text, something reveals itself very early on. The subject has not yet fully emerged, the writer’s destination is still unclear, and yet there is already a certain sense of order moving beneath the surface of the writing. The sentences flow smoothly, the words sit exactly where they should, the meaning is clear and precise. Everything feels as though it is exactly as it ought to be. And perhaps because of that, at some point, you begin to think less