I The machines ran on anguish. Everybody knew that. How? “It’s very scientific.” – the Guild would say – “You wouldn’t understand.” The machines were also very dangerous, or so it was claimed. “But we
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
Introducing Open Souls PBC and our historic mission
Life With Machines | Substack
A cultural movement (and show) for people who want to live well with AI, not just endure it. Bringing clarity, critique, curiosity (and some comedy) to the AI discourse. A production by Baratunde. Click to read Life With Machines, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
The Crooked Timber of AI
The philosophical perils of conflating discoveries and inventions, and how to overcome them
machines will never understand language
I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
Humanities in the Machine - Blain Smith
There is something quietly remarkable about the people who built the foundations of modern computing. Not their technical achievements, though those are extraordinary. What is remarkable is where they came from before they ever touched a machine.
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...
Sundae Labs PBC
We, the makers of the machines, are more than the sum of our parts. Let’s domesticate tech to aid human flourishing.
The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science - Cosmik Labs
Conscious or Not
For as long as I remember, people have been arguing about whether machines could be intelligent or not.
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
Weird Machines HQ
The expression "weird machines" was first used in the RSS 2009 talk. It referred to state-of-the-art exploitation as finding and programming an execution model (a machine, such as a virtual automaton) within the target via crafted inputs. It was soon extended to other methods of reliably or probabilistically influencing the target's state. A compressed version of that original talk was given at the Chaos Computing Congress 27c3 [slides], [video].
“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us” zenodo.org/records/17065099 14/🧵
