AI’s Builders Are Both Arrogant and Afraid
Techies want AI so it can put humans in their place. They also want to build God. Pope Leo has a secret third option.
Staying Human
Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings
Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings
Techies want AI so it can put humans in their place. They also want to build God. Pope Leo has a secret third option.
“We aren’t defective, just different” was the 1990s rallying cry of deaf activists who rejected medical fixes. Why have transgender activists argued that only medical tech can make them who they really are?
From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
Marc Andreessen wants us to go faster. But what does that matter if nobody’s left in the car?
Effective altruism asked us to do more good by becoming less human.
Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead
Why the end of the human species would be bad, actually
