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Mind & Human Nature

What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t

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Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
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Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI

How to act rightly in response

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

AI Will Seem to Be Alive

How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence

How to see clearly what lies ahead

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Will AI Be Alive?

What lies ahead and how to face it well

Brian J. A. Boyd

Review | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Charles Carman

One to Zero

How to destroy the future

Charles Carman

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • R. J. Snell

Ethics Won’t Save Us From AI

Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers

From: What Calls to Build Miss

R. J. Snell

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Dean W. Ball

The Era of Predictive AI Is Almost Over

“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.

Dean W. Ball

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Why We Need Amistics for AI

Tech ethics needs a breakthrough. The Amish have it.

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Thomas Fuchs

Narcissistic Depressive Technoscience

Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead

Thomas Fuchs

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Meghan Houser

AI Is a Hall of Mirrors

LLMs are giving us a billion ripoffs of what we already are at a moment when we yearn for something new.

Meghan Houser

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