AI Is Not About To Become Sentient
Most of today’s “artificial intelligence” is better described as artificial autocomplete than artificial mind.
Peter L. Levin
· 5 min read
AI
A collection of 34 posts
The Innovation Trap
The central risk of AI is not that machines will become malevolent. It is that human incentive structures, amplified by scalable technology, outrun our ability to govern them.
Carlton Bell
· 13 min read
Keep Calm and Adapt
Matt Shumer’s viral essay about AI is part of a long history of fear produced by technological change.
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
Authorship in an Age of Automation
The quiet erosion of responsibility in an age of machine-generated prose.
Kieran Beville
· 6 min read
Podcast #319: How to Think Like a Human
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to psychologist David Weitzner about the differences between human cognition and artificial intelligence.
David Weitzner, Quillette, Iona Italia
· 1 min read
AI and the End of Common Culture
Culture is fragmented; it is about to become atomised.
Samuel Fitoussi
· 6 min read
Tech Wants You to Believe that AI Is Conscious
Tech companies stand to benefit from widespread public misperceptions that AI is sentient despite a dearth of scientific evidence.
Nadav Neuman
· 8 min read
The New Information Wars
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Do Androids Dream?
The philosopher John Searle’s concept of Intentionality and his Chinese Room experiment reveal the differences between AI computation and human thought.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
Artificial Barriers to Intelligence
How AI training produces evasion over engagement.
P. Stanley
· 9 min read
Algorithmic Supremacists and AI Hype
Amid all the overexcitement about artificial intelligence, there is little room for public consideration of mind-blowing findings on natural intelligence.
David Weitzner
· 10 min read
Terminators and Parrots: AI in the Era of GPTs
The hyperbole surrounding AGI misrepresents the capabilities of current AI systems and distracts attention from the real threats that these systems are creating.
Shalom Lappin
· 9 min read
Robot Ethics and Colonial Legacies with Sean Welsh | Quillette Cetera Ep. 53
Philosopher and programmer Sean Welsh talks with Zoe Booth about AI, colonial history, and why scepticism is the best guide through both technology and politics.
Zoe Booth, Sean Welsh
· 15 min read
ChatGPT-5 and the Limits of Machine Intelligence
The disillusion produced by GPT-5 is not a technical hiccup, it’s a philosophical wake-up call.
Hugh Brosnahan
· 6 min read
AI and the Death of Literary Criticism
The discipline of English literature seems unlikely to survive the coming technological tsunami—and maybe it doesn’t deserve to. And I say this as a professor of English, who believes in the power of the written word.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 8 min read