The Theme Artificial Intelligence Is Just a Story, and We Can Tell a Better One March 9, 2018 By Caveat Magister Amazon has recently confirmed reports that its home operating system "Alexa," has been spontaneously laughing for no apparent reason, occasionally ...Read More
The Theme An Empowering Robot is an Ethical Robot February 20, 2018 By Caveat Magister The problem with the way we try to give AI ethics is that we design these ethics to work for ...Read More
The Theme Successful AI Will Usher in a New Era of Theology February 13, 2018 By Caveat Magister For the hundreds of years that comprised the “Middle Ages,” theology was the most cherished and important intellectual discipline, the ...Read More
The Theme How to Practice Being Human: An Interview With Dr. Sherry Turkle February 6, 2018 By Caveat Magister Our problem isn't that Artificial Intelligence is getting better at being human, it's that human beings are getting worse at ...Read More
The Theme The Three Laws of Robotics Can’t Save Us January 22, 2018 By Caveat Magister Isaac Asimov made some very interesting thought experiments about Artificial Intelligence and the world it creates in I, Robot. But ...Read More
The Theme What if Kafka Was a Cyberpunk? (The Connection Between AI and Bureaucracy) January 16, 2018 By Caveat Magister At the time Kafka wrote his infamous novels about human beings struggling to make sense of a world full of ...Read More
The Theme What Is It We Think Humans Can Do That Robots Can’t? January 8, 2018 By Caveat Magister If this essay were a classic sci-fi script, then by the end the computer I’m writing it on would experience ...Read More
The Theme Why We Get the Robot Overlords We Deserve January 3, 2018 By Caveat Magister Many months ago, while still developing this year’s theme, Larry Harvey began receiving a series of robocalls in which an ...Read More
Serious Stuff, Spirituality The Parable of the Gift December 21, 2017 By Caveat Magister The only thing I ever get for Christmas is depressed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about giving. For ...Read More
Serious Stuff Frontiers of Decommodification: Video Games, Micro-transactions, and Authenticity December 11, 2017 By Caveat Magister I’m not familiar with any serious schools of thought suggesting that Burning Man has much in common with video games. ...Read More