Nietzsche and the machines by Sebastian Sunday Greve in The Philosopher’s Magazine 4 June 2021
We need to think about how we and advanced AI are going to live together. The thrust of Greve’s...
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Internal affairs by Caroline Williams in New Scientist 9 July 2022
Inner speech and consciousness are not the same thing. We are (almost) all familiar with the voice...
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Illusionism as a theory of consciousness edited by Keith Frankish 2017
Illusionism still wins by a short head. Acres of print is given over to increasingly elaborate...
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Journal of Consciousness Studies on Animal consciousness vol 29, no 3-4, 2022
Arguments about animal sentience pave the way for arguments about machine sentience. This recent...
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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Virtual reality is as real as physical reality, but just different by Richard Webb interviewing David Chalmers in New Scientist 29 January 2022
Reality is reality is reality. The most important point in Chalmers’ new book is that what we...
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AI for all by Gabriela Ramos in New Scientist 4 December 2021
UNESCO’s international agreement on AI ethics looks great, but is it really? 193 countries have...
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The singularity, edited by Uziel Awret, 2016
Climate change worries crowd out the potentially much greater impact of the singularity. The...
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The alignment problem by Brian Christian 2021
How do we ensure that AI will have the same values as humans? Brian Christian’s book asks...
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Legal Researchers Weigh in on How Future Laws Should Deal With The Rise of The Sexbots by David Neild on TechPost & Science 14 August
Blending AI with ethics will be a real tough nut. There is always a small number of really...
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Bart Selman interviewed by Lucas Perry on the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence from the Future of Life Institute 20 May 2021
Wide-ranging discussion on the future of AI, including artificial superintelligence. Selman notes...
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A machine that thinks like us by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 17 April 2021
The meaning of consciousness continues to confuse people. Apparently, researchers have developed a...
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Machine in the ghost by Ed Simon in Aeon 5 February 2021
What price religion when machines have consciousness? It turns out that the answer may not be...
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Towards a code of ethics for artificial intelligence by Paula Boddington 2017
AI ethics remains a big unsolved problem. The more that one thinks about AI ethics, the more one...
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The sociological imagination by C Wright Mills 1959
The worries of a sociologist 60 years ago are pertinent today. Back in 1959, C. Wright Mills...
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Wine and bottles in The Economist 17 October 2020
The wine trade confirms that thought trumps language. There are those who say that language is the...
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Cognition all the way down by Michael Levin and Daniel Dennett at aeon.co 13 October 2020
Agency is on a continuum of evolutionary outcomes. Agency is not a distinct category separated...
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The new long life by Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton 2020
Multistage lives will make you think harder about you lead yours. We are all living longer and...
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Responsible artificial intelligence by Virginia Dignum 2019
A worthy introduction to the vexed question of AI ethics. Dignum’s book lists the areas we need to...
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