AI raises important questions about what it means to be human. It's time to have that conversation.
AI is developing the same problem as cousins who marry—and for the same reason.
The future of the internet is a lifeless wasteland. But what comes after that could be wild.
A philosopher and an AI expert explore the potential pitfalls and benefits of artificial intelligence. An ongoing series.
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.
When it screws up, ChatGPT apologizes to me. It has the desired effect: I am defanged in the moment, willing to move on and trust again. But what is artificial remorse doing to the idea of the apology?
As we rush into the arms of AI medicine, will compelling research on the importance of the patient-doctor relationship be ignored?
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.
AI futurists assume that faster thinking automatically produces greater intelligence, leading to a Singularity of transcendent machine minds. But speed is the less important half of intelligence.
Existing AI programs are single-purpose. They aren’t the futurist dream of an artificial general intelligence that can solve any problem and rapidly improve itself.
AI has genuine potential both to liberate humans from toil, or to allow greed and bias to run wild.