Posts about robots-essays

Several times in this series, leading minds in their fields called for AI development to stop so that humanity can ...Read More

“People create Gods when they wonder why things happen. Do you know why things happen? Because Gods make them happen. ...Read More

In principle, the debate we’re having is how to make Artificial Intelligence more human, more ethical, and how to treat ...Read More

Technology changes fast, so let’s take a moment to stop and review.   Better Off a Bot   Shortly before ...Read More

Cogito Ergo Sum In 1637, before we, as a human race, knew what a robot was (although there was the ...Read More

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

On January 6, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System sent a letter to Apple executives urging greater study into the ...Read More

If your autonomous agent has a right to free speech and you own the agent, is that right independent of ...Read More

For the hundreds of years that comprised the “Middle Ages,” theology was the most cherished and important intellectual discipline, the ...Read More

Isaac Asimov made some very interesting thought experiments about Artificial Intelligence and the world it creates in I, Robot.  But ...Read More