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Moral Maze: AI — The End of Humanity?
Commentary on the creative intelligence of computational AI, explaining that limitations in expressive art stem from the absence of consciousness and subjective experience that underlies true creativity.
Ethical AI: Why It Matters & What's at Stake
Exploring how AI systems learn from our biases, the risks of opaque models, and the challenge of Social AI — machines designed to simulate empathy and consciousness. If machines are learning from us, what kind of teachers are we?
Understood: The Making of Musk
Discussion of Neuralink's N1 implant, the Contemplation Conundrum, privacy of thought, loss of executory control, and the cyberpunk vision of a future where mind and machine intertwine.
Will AI Make Art & Artists Obsolete?
Exploring the future of aesthetics with the rise of AI art — the “what it is like-ness” argument for uniquely human creativity, and the importance of phenomenology and subjective experience in expressive art.
Can Machines Be Conscious?
Exploring access versus phenomenal consciousness and whether consciousness could ever arise in artificial intelligence — and what that would mean for moral status and the ethics of AI.