We can learn a lot about gender from apes. What Frans de Waal knows about chimps and bonobos is...
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Illusionism still wins by a short head. Acres of print is given over to increasingly elaborate...
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Democracies are losing ground to autocracies. But technology may elbow both aside in the future....
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Love needs to be at the heart of artificial superintelligence. Gawdat, former chief business...
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Climate change worries crowd out the potentially much greater impact of the singularity. The...
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How do we ensure that AI will have the same values as humans? Brian Christian’s book asks...
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A history of AI with a nod to conscious machines. If you are looking for a description of how we...
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Is Klara a sentient robot? At one level, we can never know, just as we cannot tell for sure that...
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Are there ways to protect yourself from being displaced by a robot? Roose accurately describes the...
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Transhumanism is still very much a minority sport. This is a snappy take on the transhumanist...
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Organisms with a nervous system have consciousness. Hmmm. Peter Godfrey-Smith, he of octopus fame,...
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AI ethics remains a big unsolved problem. The more that one thinks about AI ethics, the more one...
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We still don’t understand general intelligence. Roitblat notes that both humans and machines...
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Artificial general intelligence is on the way and we ought to think about it carefully. This book...
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The law and AI are out of sync. There are some areas of the law which more or less address...
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Increasing automation will lead to a world of profound ennui. Automation is so seductive. It will...
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The worries of a sociologist 60 years ago are pertinent today. Back in 1959, C. Wright Mills...
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Craft and care fight back against a world currently dominated by the cognitive. Goodhart...
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Multistage lives will make you think harder about you lead yours. We are all living longer and...
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Chances are, fully autonomous weaponry will become widespread. It’s a loathsome thought but fully...
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