A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At...
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari review – how data will destroy human freedom
It’s a chilling prospect, but the AI we’ve created could transform human nature, argues this spellbinding new book by the author of Sapiens
AI as Social Technology
Our debates about ‘AI’ grow out of 1990s science fiction. Back then, Vinge (1993) wrote essays and novels urging us to face up to the oncoming “Singularity”: a moment of rapid change that would fundamentally transform the human condition. On that day, AI would rapidly evolve from merely human-level intelligence, what some now call ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI), into something super-intelligent with its own interests and goals. Humanity would then either be casually eliminated by out-of-control machines, or humans would become as gods, with super-human servitors at our command.
RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.
Making God · EmilyGorcenski.com
The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism.
God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger | Backchannel
AI is this engineer's religion. But it’s his all-too-human behavior that sits at the heart of Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber.
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss is a 2013 book by philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart published by Yale University Press. The book lays out a statement and defense of classical theism and attempts to provide an explanation of how the word "God" functions in the theistic faiths, drawing particularly from Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI
AI has been a core part of Pope Leo’s papacy
On working machines
In part one, on thinking machines, I explored two facets of the philosophy of artificial intelligence: “intelligence”, and consciousness. That left an important topic to consider for this post: the...
Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity
If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.
AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | Substack
I write about interesting new developments in AI. Click to read AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, by Melanie Mitchell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
[Keynote 04] AgentSociety: Exploring Large Language Model Agents for Piloting Social Experiments
Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI
Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting …
