One Year Since the AI Pause Petition Just because we can imagine something terrible happening, that does not mean it will happen. Mathias Sundin 22 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question Explaining the “accel/decel” split at the heart of the OpenAI power struggle. Sean Welsh / Michael Timothy Bennett 18 Dec 2023 · 13 min read
Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it. Stewart Slater 5 Dec 2023 · 9 min read
The Unexpected Benefits of Artificial Intimacy: Quillette Cetera Episode 21 An interview with evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks about the positive aspects of AI lovers. Zoe Booth 29 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced. Steven D. Hales 13 Feb 2023 · 13 min read
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype or Reality? AVs are essentially robots with the same requirements as human-driven vehicles—driving and parking skills, the ability to communicate with other cars and the infrastructure, navigation skills, and access to a source of energy. Randall Mayes 19 Oct 2021 · 14 min read
The White of the AI The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic. Sean Welsh 23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible. Pedro Domingos 27 Jan 2021 · 12 min read
The Human Skills AI Can't Replace Today’s inductive AI can only solve problems in the narrow problem space we predefine. William J. Littlefield II 25 Sep 2019 · 10 min read
