Burning Man 2026: Axis Mundi
“The World Tree rises at the center of the cosmos, its roots in the underworld, its branches in the heavens, its trunk in the middle world of men.” —Mircea Eliade ...Read More
Burning Man 2018 to Institute CAPTCHA Protocol at Gate
San Francisco, April 4 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fearing that too many ticket holders are in fact spambots, Burning Man ...Read More
The Inscrutable Oneness of Being: Using Machine Learning on Burning Man
Have you ever “found yourself” at Burning Man? It’s a cliché, but it’s something people say, right? I wouldn’t personally ...Read More
How Cyborgs Replace “Stories” With “Code,” And What Happens Next
On January 6, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System sent a letter to Apple executives urging greater study into the ...Read More
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
From Robots to Intelligent, Autonomous Agents
If your autonomous agent has a right to free speech and you own the agent, is that right independent of ...Read More
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