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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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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Charles T. Rubin

Robotic Souls

Will AI contain multitudes? Do we?

Charles T. Rubin

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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Jon Askonas

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism.

Jon Askonas

Review | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Olga Rachello

Lives of the Immortalists

The human stories of people who don’t want to be human

Olga Rachello

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Essay | Winter 2017

Winter 2017

  • Charles T. Rubin

Mind Games

The film Ex Machina and breathing life into matter

From: Information, Matter, and Life

Charles T. Rubin

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Essay | Winter 2017

Winter 2017

  • Luciano Floridi

Why Information Matters

What philosophy and computer science can contribute to each other

From: Information, Matter, and Life

Luciano Floridi

Essay | Winter 2014

Winter 2014

  • Joshua Schulz

Machine Grading and Moral Learning

Joshua Schulz

Essay | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

  • Charles T. Rubin

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice

On what the Jewish legend can (and cannot) teach us about bioethics

From: Science, Technology, and Religion

Charles T. Rubin

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Essay | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

  • Adam Keiper
  • Ari Schulman

The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence

From: Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Adam Keiper and Ari Schulman

Essay | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

  • Charles T. Rubin

Machine Morality and Human Responsibility

From: Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Charles T. Rubin

Essay | Winter 2009

Winter 2009

  • Ari Schulman

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers

The fundamental confusion about artificial intelligence

Ari Schulman

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