Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion
What is consciousness for?
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
AI
A collection of 49 posts
Why AI Is Not About to Go Feral
Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Creators and Destroyers of Worlds
Despite the dangers, we must seize the gifts bequeathed by world-altering technologies, since these amount to life in unprecedented abundance.
Ian Nieves
· 9 min read
Reading Orwell in the Age of AI
Prescient about the possibility of machine-generated writing, George Orwell’s life and work offer a deeper warning about the LLM era.
Matt Johnson
· 24 min read
Move 37 and the Coming Mindhack
What happens when human manipulation arrives at its Claude Mythos moment?
Michael Morgenstern
· 15 min read
AI and the Wiki Wars
The Wikipedia knowledge monopoly is not ready for the Grokipedia threat.
Russell T. Warne
· 16 min read
To Meet a Chatbot
An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights.
Matthew M. Davis
· 19 min read
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
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