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Mind & Human Nature

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

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
All

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Adam Elkus

AI Can’t Beat Stupid

Predictions of AI apocalypse suffer the classic egghead blunder: they overrate the power of raw intelligence.

From: They’re Here…

Adam Elkus

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning

AI will destroy a lot of jobs that are already pointless. Is that really worth celebrating?

From: They’re Here…

Brian J. A. Boyd

Symposium | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

They’re Here…

The AI moment has arrived.
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning
AI Can’t Beat Stupid
The Dead Internet to Come
Why I Fired My AI Agent
How the State Built This AI Moment
The Speech of the Dead
Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Ari Schulman

Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal

This time, believe the hype.

From: They’re Here…

Ari Schulman

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Paul Dicken

Surveillance Humanism

The unholy union of AI and HR is coming.

Paul Dicken

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • David Bentley Hart

Reality Minus

On the depressing fantasy of minds in simulated worlds

From: Saving the Real

David Bentley Hart

Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • William Lombardo

Losing Ourselves

Why the prospect of loving machines is so sad

William Lombardo

Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • William Hasselberger

Can Machines Have Common Sense?

“Deep learning” hype misses a basic feature of human intelligence.

From: Available in Audio

William Hasselberger

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Kent Anhari

Bot Anxiety

What happens to public discourse when everyone fails the Turing Test?

Kent Anhari

Essay | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Adam Elkus

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting

From: Available in Audio

Adam Elkus

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