Diop: read the minds shaping our future

Diop is a free reader for papers and classics on AI, values and history, from China and the West. It turns any PDF paper or EPUB book into one calm column that fits your phone, translates any passage, and reads aloud.

AI and the human heart: China and the West

A curated collection that starts from classics that asked the machine question first (the Zhuangzi's "machine-heart", Aristotle's self-weaving shuttle, Butler, Shelley, Forster, Čapek, Confucius and Mencius) and follows today's debate in Chinese and English: Zhao Tingyang, Liu Yongmou, Zhu Songchun, Iason Gabriel and others.

What you can do

• Read any PDF paper as one column, with figures and headings in place.
• Tap a citation to see the full reference without losing your place.
• Search for any word and step through every match.
• Highlight in four colours and add notes.
• Listen with read-aloud while each line lights up.
• Get a summary from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, using your own key.
• Read free classics from Project Gutenberg: Laozi, Confucius, Gibran, Equiano, Du Bois and more.

Private by design

Your files, highlights and notes stay on your device. There are no accounts. Read the privacy policy.

Made by Anis Belabbas.