Artificial Intelligence Is Just a Story, and We Can Tell a Better One
Amazon has recently confirmed reports that its home operating system "Alexa," has been spontaneously laughing for no apparent reason, occasionally ...Read More
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An Empowering Robot is an Ethical Robot
The problem with the way we try to give AI ethics is that we design these ethics to work for ...Read More
Successful AI Will Usher in a New Era of Theology
For the hundreds of years that comprised the “Middle Ages,” theology was the most cherished and important intellectual discipline, the ...Read More
How to Practice Being Human: An Interview With Dr. Sherry Turkle
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 Three Laws of Robotics Can’t Save Us
Isaac Asimov made some very interesting thought experiments about Artificial Intelligence and the world it creates in I, Robot. But ...Read More
What if Kafka Was a Cyberpunk? (The Connection Between AI and Bureaucracy)
At the time Kafka wrote his infamous novels about human beings struggling to make sense of a world full of ...Read More
What Is It We Think Humans Can Do That Robots Can’t?
If this essay were a classic sci-fi script, then by the end the computer I’m writing it on would experience ...Read More
Why We Get the Robot Overlords We Deserve
Many months ago, while still developing this year’s theme, Larry Harvey began receiving a series of robocalls in which an ...Read More
The Parable of the Gift
The only thing I ever get for Christmas is depressed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about giving. For ...Read More