Resist the Voyeuristic Spirit of the Age
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By Brett McCracken, TGC. (Image Helena Lopes/Unsplash) Contemporary digital technology allows us to easily watch videos of terrorists beheading victims and offers the possibility o...
Sherry Turkle’s new book cautions against forming attachments with AI chatbots.
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia.
As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.
J.D. Vance counts J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas among his intellectual influences. This strong philosophical grounding notwithstanding, he kee...
Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia.
Here is the link, here is the end bit: Who is the most important thinker of our time? It’s not about individual thinkers any more. It’s about the internet as this vast organ of kno...
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
Brian Caulfield, The Human Life Review No, the real danger is that we humans will begin to assess our own capacities in terms of computer programs; we will rate ourselves smart in...
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Simon Critchley about why philosophy matters in the age of A.I. Also: Watching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang’s “Why We’re Building Muse” essay: This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for...
We don’t want the isolating, automated outputs tech lords are selling us. We’re yearning for a shared frame of referenceI have a cherished memory of a family trip to the movies. In...
Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.
This is our paradox: We know that uncertainty is the substrate of the universe, is the crucible of creativity, is the path to truth, and yet we spend our lives searching for certai...
The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people.
Phil Campbell reviews The AI Apocalypse – “As a classic early adopter, I’ve followed the AI wave with enthusiasm. Somehow, though, this technology is different. Large Language Mode...
Tragic AI Companionship, Digital Isolation, and the Alarms Drowned Out by Profit and PowerContinue reading on Medium »
That is the topic of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: I do not think the skeptics would put it this way, but as I read Conti, I find he has a pretty bleak fundamen...
How could superintelligence change our daily lives? The philosopher Nick Bostrom mulls over whether A.I. is building a future that we actually want.
It shows you what keeps you watching, and Heidegger warned about what that costs us.Continue reading on Medium В»
AI-powered glasses make cameras and artificial intelligence less visible than ever, raising new questions about privacy and consent. As Meta strengthens safeguards around its smart...
Tech platforms pillage public-interest journalism for profit. But we have leverage as they sow the seeds of their own downfallCarine Fouteau is president and publishing director of...
There are almost as many screen control apps as there are social media apps. You can buy a device that physically locks your phone and requires you to move to another room to unloc...
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