He said Google's AI was conscious. But what was it doing to his mind?
Four years ago, whistleblower Blake Lemoine became convinced that Google's AI chatbot had become sentient. Now he is warning about the mental health risks.
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AI, Philosophy & Thought — what each story says
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🧠 Philosophy of mind and consciousness2
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- Is it time for A.I. to slow down or speed up?America Magazine · 11/06 16:10 UTC
🪞 What it means to be human1
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- Pavel Chatterjee's Book Encourages Us to Think, Question and Explore the Unknown on Humanity, Artificial Intelligence and the Mysteries of the UniverseIBG News · 11/07 17:16 UTC
🔎 Knowledge and truth3
Spinoza and the Thinking Machine: The Philosophy of God, Nature and Artificial Intelligence
Matthew Parish writes that few 17th-century philosophers are more relevant to the AI revolution than Baruch Spinoza. The Dutch philosopher lived from 1632 to 1677. His metaphysical system differed so radically from the orthodoxies of his age that he was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.
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- Anastasia Berg Interviewed in “This Year I Believe We Must Act”: Deming’s Take on Harvard’s AI PolicyUCI School of Humanities · 11/05 04:04 UTC
- Where Does Humanity Find Its Last Refuge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?The New Nation · 11/07 18:08 UTC
🗣️ Thinkers and public intellectuals1
Slow Down—Don’t Stop: AI Has a Bright Future, but How Do We Get There?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published an essay titled "We Must Pace The Frontier," arguing for slowing the development of AI. The piece says that, despite being rooted in his ethical beliefs, he focuses mainly on the "operational security" of the systems rather than their physical or ethical reality.
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