PRISM — Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines

PRISM is a non-profit helping to build the field of digital minds, supporting research and education on AI consciousness, moral status, and AI minds.

Meeting where AI eyes can't follow

I applied to the Community Privacy Residency, and the past projects reminded me of a cryptographic exploration I come back to every once in a while, just for...

Catherine Yeh

Hi, I'm Catherine! I'm a computer science Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, advised by Prof. Martin Wattenberg and Prof. Fernanda Viégas in the Insight + Interaction Lab. My research interests lie at the intersection of visualization, interpretability, and human-AI interaction.

AI Interfaces

Where are we and where are we going?

The AI We Deserve

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

Humanity-as-a-Service

Commoditizing the human touch in the age of AI

My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey

My own personal thoughts and opinions on AI effects and usage, and how those have evolved over time

AI for science: What can it do? Can it do things? Let’s find out!

A what we’re reading spotlight

Anthropomorphism Is Breaking Our Ability to Judge AI

Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball asks, how should we interact with a technology designed to ‘speak’ with us on what appear to be human terms?

Signal's Meredith Whittaker sees AI as another big data grab

The "surveillance business model" is using AI to expand its reach, the privacy expert says.

AI experienced through AI co-created tools

AI co-created tools and social spaces as a new medium

233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper

This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.

Is there something it is like to be an AI?

Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.