A review of What Is Life?: Evolution by Computation, and What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
A conversation with Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google) and Michael Levin (Tufts University) about two recente papers on the computational foundations of life and intelligence.
A conversation with Maggie Jackson, author of Uncertain
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
If Clearview is normalized, we're not who we think (or hope) we are.
Why we need to keep talking about Ring and "plug-in surveillance."
How should we think about this super-convenient yet dystopian tech?
What does it mean if AI is doing the job of government employees?
This week Facebook announced a new policy banning deepfake videos.
Why the outcry about Google's gathering of personal health data? There’s no way of knowing whether this data will be used in unethical ways. Some of these risks are theoretical but the stakes are high. Right now, we do just have to trust them.
If you’re at all enmeshed in the tech press, the big issue for the last couple of weeks has been Facebook’s inability to get out of the huge hole it’s dug for itself around misuse of its platform, political ad targeting and lies.
Facial recognition is facing a backlash and Amazon is an easy target.
Facebook's AI chief scientist oversimplifies humans. Again.
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)
