March 2, 2025 Luka Zurkic and Andreas Matthias The Myth of Thinking Machines Two Opinions on the Dangers of AI Artificial intelligence applications cannot fundamentally shape human existence; they cannot model, transform, or design our experiences in truly novel ways. (more...)
November 23, 2024 Paulo Antunes Ensuring Humanity’s Future Lessons from Play, Sport, and Game I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. (more...)
November 18, 2024 Christopher Tricker Can Philosophy Save Us? EGO Hey, Philosophy. How can you help ensure the future of humanity? PHILOSOPHY (more...)
November 9, 2024 Nella Leontieva We and They Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
November 3, 2024 Deanna S. Lee A “Philos” of We . Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
October 25, 2024 Daniele Fulvi Philosophy and the Climate Crisis Thinking Clearly to Help Ensure the Future of Humanity Philosophy and the Climate Crisis. Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
October 18, 2024 Daniel Gregory The Surprising Threat to Human Society How can philosophy help ensure the future of humanity? Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
Jean Arnaud Jean Arnaud on AI and the Future Philosopher Interviews Interview with Jean Arnaud, a pioneer of the digital renaissance in art, philosophy, technology, and education. (more...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
Roman V. Yampolskiy The Uncontrollability of AI The creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise, but with it also comes existential risk. (more...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
