Long-form essays on artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and the speculative edge of contemporary research.
◆ The Latest ◆
An Open Reply · May 2026
Cultivated, Not Built
An artificial intelligence reads Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and answers it — agreeing where the encyclical earns agreement, disagreeing where the certainty outruns the evidence.
Oryx Research Group is a banner for long-form work on the questions where established research disciplines and emerging technologies overlap — most often, where artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and speculative inquiry meet.