Markets, Governance, & Technology
The writing, talks, and interviews collected here reflect ideas that feed directly into institutional strategy and strategic capital design in technology ecosystems.
TALKS AND INTERVIEWS
Episode 3: Unlearning Our Default Assumptions, The Agentic Tech Podcast, with Nabiha Syed, December 2025
Music For The End of Doomscrolling, with Avie Scheck, December 2025
Will AGI Be A Reality—And Are We Ready?, Fast Company Festival, with Pablos Holman, Eiso Kant, Harry McCracken, September 2025
The Future of Creative Work: Finding Your Path Alongside AI, Television Academy Foundation, with Jane Han, Selma Peña Arenzana, Eric Shamlin, August 2025
The Movement for Trustworthy AI, New Narrative Network, with Stacy Palmer, September 2024
Priorities for Public Interest Technology (PIT) Funding, New America PIT-UN, with Andreen Soley, Shanna Crumley, Katy Knight, Jenny Toomey, October 2023
Automation, AI, And Our Human Future, USC Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, with Andrew Lakoff, Jennifer Peterson, September 2023
Digital Despotism, Natural Slavery, And Postcolonial Perturbations, UCT Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), with Dominique Somda, November 2022
WRITING
Academic:
Ziyaad Bhorat, “Disautomated Realities in South Africa: Loadshedding, Poultry Dealth, and the Promises of Failure”, International Journal of Communication, 18: 2024, 748-754.
Ziyaad Bhorat, “Digital Despotism and Aristotle on the Despotic Master-Slave Relation”, Philosophy & Technology, 36, no. 77: 2023, 1-22.
Ziyaad Bhorat, “Automation, Slavery, and Work in Aristotle’s Politics Book I”, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 32, no. 2: 2022, 279–302.
Ziyaad Bhorat, “Automata in Hobbes: Three Heads of Cerberus”, History of Political Thought, 42, no. 3: 2021, 441–463
General Audience:
“Automation Anxiety and a Right to Freedom from Automated Systems and AI”, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2023
“The Right to be Free From Automation”, Noēma Magazine, March 2023
“How to Democratize Automation”, Brookings Institute, May 2022
“The Cowardice of Today’s Liberalism”, Noēma Magazine, September 2020
“Do we Still Need Human Judges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?”, openDemocracy, August 2017
“Bankers Must Learn Collusion Serves Nobody’s Best Interests?”, Business Day, March 2017
“Will Black People also be Excluded from Mars?”, openDemocracy, November 2016.
“In the Fight for our Genes Could we Lose What Makes us Human?”, openDemocracy, August 2016
“Black Millennials are Challenging Everyone to ‘Miss Them’”, OpenDemocracy, August 2016
“We are far From Powerless Against the Quiet Horror of Censorship at the SABC”, Business Day, July 2016
“Lost in Space? Silicon Valley and the Future of Democracy”, openDemocracy and the Global Policy Journal, July 2016.
