A.I. Is Changing the Way We Think About Good and Evil
Chatbots can teach us about human nature.
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A Rock Star Philosopher
Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor, has been predicting this political moment for decades. We called him to discuss where we go from here.
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What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out.
We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network.
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A.I. Can Fool Us Into Thinking It’s Human. Now What?
And if A.I. tells us it is conscious, should we believe it? The writer Michael Pollan dug into those questions and more on “The Interview.”
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Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
Brian Hedden PhD ’12 has been appointed co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at MIT, a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, effective Jan. 16.Hedden is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, holding an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the Department
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The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence
To what extent can an artificial system be rational?A new MIT course, 6.S044/24.S00 (AI and Rationality), doesn’t seek to answer this question. Instead, it challenges students to explore this and other philosophical problems through the lens of AI research. For the next generation of scholars, concepts of rationality and agency could prove integral in AI
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The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.
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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change thatThis summer, I found myself battling through traffic in the sweltering streets of Marseille. At a crossing, my friend in the passenger seat told me to turn right toward a spot known for its fish soup. But the
When Algorithms Dream of Photons: Can AI Redefine Reality Like Einstein?
The Photoelectric Paradox: What AI Reveals About Human BrillianceContinue reading on Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine »
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Should we turn the internet off?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue worldThe internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face
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