AGBU Magazine |June 2026

Reality, Humanity, and Identity in the Age of AI

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AI: A Promise or a Threat?

Ethics, issues and the future of humanity

By His Holiness Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia

Super Tools or Smart Strategy?

Prioritizing AI defense opportunities for Armenia

By Araks Kasyan

From Bet to Boom - Feature

From Bet to Boom

Armenia’s bold strategy for its tech sector is paying off

BY LAURA L. CONSTANTINE

Is AI the New FYI?

How Armenian news media can fall prey to false data, fake content, and diluted meaning

By Laura L. Constantine

The Many Faces of AI

Muse, thief, forger, imitator and chaos unleashed

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Armenia’s bold strategy for its tech sector is paying off

From Bet to Boom

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Armenians from America bearing gifts: knowledge and passion

Diaspora Imprints

Armenians from America bearing gifts: knowledge and passion

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Super Tools or Smart Strategy? - Feature

Super Tools or Smart Strategy?

Prioritizing AI defense opportunities for Armenia

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Is AI the New FYI? - Feature

Is AI the New FYI?

How Armenian news media can fall prey to false data, fake content, and diluted meaning

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The Many Faces of AI

The Many Faces of AI

Muse, thief, forger, imitator and chaos unleashed

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The Living Land - Feature

The Living Land

Armenia’s biodiversity tells its unique stories of places and people

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The Digital Blockade - Credit: Giovanni Bernal

The Digital Blockade

How Big Tech suppresses Armenian voices on social media

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Jobs of Tomorrow, Today

Jobs of Tomorrow, Today

How AI can reshape Armenia’s labor market

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The Future of Our Past - Credit No Credit Needed

The Future of Our Past

Armenian heritage preservation in the age of AI

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The new 27-mile TRIPP route passes through Armenia’s southern Syunik region.

Peace Dividends

Prospects for the U.S.-brokered TRIPP agreement

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First General Assembly of AGBU’s U.S. Chapters in Boston in 1912. Credit - AGBU Nubar Library

AGBU’s American Century

A hundred years of expansion, community development, and contribution

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The façade of the Armenian American Museum reflects the Armenian landscape in a contemporary form, with fragmented elements symbolizing a global diaspora shaped by loss, resilience, and unity.

Walls That Talk

The Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center starts new conversations on identity and heritage

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Petros Markaris, the Greek Armenian writer who reshaped Mediterranean crime fiction through social and political storytelling.

Crime and Conscience

Greek Armenian writer Petros Markaris explores contemporary society through crime fiction

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A vintage postcard of Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Armenian Americans from across the Eastern seaboard flocked each summer, especially in its heyday from the 1940s to 1970s. The poet’s family owned the Armenian Royal Hotel, just off the boardwalk.

Bone and Sinew

It’s been so long I can only half rememberthe pain that lived in some strange world behind their eye...

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His Holiness Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia. Photo Credit / Armenian Church Catholicosate of Cilicia

AI: A Promise or a Threat?

Ethics, issues and the future of humanity

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