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February 19, 2023
Michael Hauskeller

Should We Fear Technological Unemployment?

Technology might lead to widespread unemployment. But will this necessarily be a bad thing? Professor Michael Hauskeller on the future of work. (more...)
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October 2, 2022

Stunning AI-Generated Art

How it works and what it means
A sample of AI art generated by Stable Diffusion. Is AI generated art different from human art, and is it art at all? (more...)
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July 31, 2022

Can AI write philosophy?

How Jasper AI will shake up education
I tried out Jasper AI, a computer program that generates natural language text. It turns out that it can create near-perfect output that would easily pass for a human-written undergraduate philosophy paper. (more...)
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June 23, 2022

When Is an AI System Sentient?

Blake Lemoine and LaMDA AI
How can we tell whether an AI program “thinks” or “feels”? In the recent debate of Blake Lemoine’s claims about LaMDA, a functionalist approach can help us understand machine consciousness and feelings. (more...)
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David Villena

Deepfakes, deception, and distrust

Epistemic and social concerns
The main epistemic concern in the light of the potential ubiquity of deepfakes is not that we are going to be massively deceived. Global distrust and not global deception could be the ultimate consequence of deepfakes. (more...)
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Roman Yampolskiy on the dangers of AI

Philosopher interviews
Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville, speaks about the future of AI. (more...)
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Luca Possati on Transhumanism

Philosopher interviews
Luca M. Possati is researcher at the University of Porto, Portugal. Educated as philosopher, he has been lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris and associate researcher of the Fonds Ricoeur and EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales). (more...)
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Emanuele Costa

Inventing the New World

Can AIs have intellectual property?
For the first time in history, an AI called DABUS has been granted a patent in South Africa. This article analyses the metaphysics of attributing inventions to non-human agents. (more...)
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Is Data Science Evil?

What does “Don’t Be Evil” really mean?
Computers have a long history of being associated with evilness. Machine minds without emotions suggest cruelty, unflinching execution of inhuman orders. (more...)
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Roman V. Yampolskiy

The Uncontrollability of AI

The creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise, but with it also comes existential risk. (more...)
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Catherine Greene

More Aristotle than Galileo?

Artificial Intelligence and scientific discovery
Can artificial intelligence discover new laws of physics? Possibly. An article in Technology Review suggests that data from a swinging pendulum experiment allowed a neural network to discover some of the laws of motion. (more...)
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What is Luddism?

The challenges of modern technology
Luddism is the thesis that technology must serve human life and that often the use of technologies does not make for better or happier societies. (more...)
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Who Needs Cash Anyway?

The ethics of a cashless society
A cashless society seems convenient, but it has severe drawbacks, especially for the least privileged in society. (more...)
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Erich Fromm on Our Relation to Technology

Rediscovering ancient skills in everyday life
According to Erich Fromm, modern technology is to be blamed for constant surveillance, destruction of the planet, and widespread AI-caused unemployment. (more...)
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Erich Fromm: Society, Technology and Progress

The false promise of unlimited progress
According to philosopher Erich Fromm, the dream of endless technological development has led to a depletion of natural resources and the destruction of nature. (more...)
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History of Robots: From Albertus Magnus to the Blade Runner

The story of our fascination with our own image
From ancient China and the European Middle Ages, to zombies, Frankenstein’s monster and HAL 9000, our literary tradition is full of robots – sometimes helpful, sometimes threatening, and always questioning what it really means to be human. (more...)
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The Artificial Man in Ancient Myth

The story of our fascination with our own image
The “artificial man” is not a new concept. Today, we call them robots, but many cultures have a myth about the creation of man and often it is a god who, through the use of divine powers, makes man out of some inanimate material. (more...)
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What is Artificial Intelligence?

We examine a number of definitions quoted at the end of the first chapter of Russell and Norvig’s textbook “Artificial Intelligence. A Modern Approach” (AIMA) (more...)
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Can Machines Think?

Why it’s so hard to tell
The Turing Test wanted to provide a way to judge whether computers are intelligent, but pretending to be human in a chat is not the same as being intelligent. (more...)
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Epicurus and Luddism

Would we be happier without technology?
Technology, at least in the way that it is deployed in capitalism contradicts the essential simplicity of the ideal Epicurean life. (more...)
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Which Social Media Site Is the Most Ethical?

A case for applied utilitarianism
Social media affect our society in many ways: addiction, democracy, the decline of journalism, privacy, surveillance, and effects on friendships. (more...)
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August 21: Happy Birthday, Sergey Brin!

Are we allowed to be evil now?
Today marks the birthday of Sergey Brin of Google fame and the first public presentation of William Burroughs’ calculating machine in 1888. (more...)

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