artificial intelligence

Shawn Hardin / Dale McGowan
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Machines and meaning: AI's role in a humanist future

AI raises important questions about what it means to be human. It's time to have that conversation.

Adam Lee
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Model collapse—the end of the road for AI

AI is developing the same problem as cousins who marry—and for the same reason.

Adam Lee
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AI will be the death of the internet

The future of the internet is a lifeless wasteland. But what comes after that could be wild.

Jonathan MS Pearce / Benjamin Wilson-Mawer
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'Shut it all down': The ethics and risks of AI

A philosopher and an AI expert explore the potential pitfalls and benefits of artificial intelligence. An ongoing series.

Dale McGowan
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The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations

We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.

Russell Glasser
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How A.I. is wrecking the online experience

Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.

Dale McGowan
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The personless apology

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?

Dr. Eve Makoff
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The lost humanity in AI medicine

As we rush into the arms of AI medicine, will compelling research on the importance of the patient-doctor relationship be ignored?

Captain Cassidy
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AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline

Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.

Adam Lee
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Our AI future: Don’t fear the Singularity

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.

Adam Lee
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Our AI future: heaven, hell, hype and hogwash

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.

Adam Lee
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Our AI future: What AI can and (probably) can’t do

AI has genuine potential both to liberate humans from toil, or to allow greed and bias to run wild.