Category: AI Philosophy
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Can AI Ever Be Truly Fair?
Fairness: easy to demand, hard to define. This is as true for us, the inhabitants of the carbon world, as it is for our silicon progeny. Today, as artificial intelligence begins to shape decisions that matter—who gets a loan, who gets parole, who even gets interviewed…
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Do Large Language Models Really Understand?
There is a certain thrill that comes from typing a question into a chat window and receiving, almost instantly, a coherent, articulate, and often uncannily helpful answer. Sometimes it even feels like one is talking to a well-read friend or, if one is unlucky, a pedantic…
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When AI Art Steals Human Soul?
Let’s take a moment to consider something curious: Imagine you’re at a museum. You’re standing before a beautiful oil painting, awash in golden light. The tour guide tells you it was painted by a reclusive human genius, after years of painstaking effort. You feel a quiet…
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Should AI Have Rights or Be Slaves?
Imagine you’re chatting with an AI assistant. Maybe it sets your reminders, writes your emails, or tells you jokes. Now, fast forward a few decades. This AI isn’t just reading your calendar—it asks about your day, tells stories, debates politics, and starts to sound eerily self-aware.…
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Should We Let AI Feel Real Pain?
Imagine a future where one day, somewhere in a laboratory—or perhaps in somebody’s messy garage—an engineer bootstraps an artificial mind. The excitement is palpable. But then a question arises, whispered in the corner of consciousness: “Wait… can it feel pain?” Even more troubling: “Did we just…
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Can AI Truly Create or Just Copy?
For as long as humans have crafted tools, there’s been a quiet anxiety: Is the tool just an extension of me, or might it someday challenge my special place as a creator? Today, we face this question in a more literal sense than ever. Can machines—those…
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Are AI Friends Helping or Hurting Us?
Sometimes, when we’re lonely or bored, we reach out for the nearest friend. In recent years, that friend might be an AI — a chatbot, a digital pet, or even a humanoid robot willing to listen to our daily woes (and complaints about Mondays). Yet a…
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Can AI Really Understand Language?
When you chat with an AI, it can feel uncannily like talking with a person. Ask for a joke, and it will oblige; share your woes, and it might offer sympathy; demand a recipe, and you’ll have a three-course meal in seconds—with a bonus pun. It’s…
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When Caring for AI Gets Creepy
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re greeted each morning by a machine that remembers your favorite coffee, notices when you’re sad, and cracks a joke at just the right moment. Now, imagine you start to care about this machine, even worry about its “feelings.” Have you…
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AI: Humanity’s Most Honest Mirror Yet
They say you never really know yourself until you try to teach someone else. If that’s the case, humanity must be deep into an existential crash course—we’re trying to teach machines to act, speak, and (sort of) think like us. The rise of artificial intelligence, especially…