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  • AI Surveillance: Liberty vs. Safety

    AI Surveillance: Liberty vs. Safety

    If you’ve caught sight of the twinkling glow of a security camera in your morning commute or found a targeted ad a little too spooky in its precision, you’ve brushed against the omnipresence of AI surveillance. It’s the digital age’s version of “Are you there, God?…

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  • AI Immortality: Salvation or Doom?

    AI Immortality: Salvation or Doom?

    If there is one thing humans have always been exceptionally good at, it’s fearing the inevitable. We’ve come up with some brilliant distractions: art, philosophy, and that ominous tick-tock in horror movies. But under all our grand designs, lurking in the corner like a forgotten umbrella,…

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  • AI’s Limit: Understanding Humor?

    AI’s Limit: Understanding Humor?

    Picture this: You’re having a perfectly upbeat conversation with someone, the words are flowing, jokes are being made, and then suddenly, your chat companion responds to your witty remark with a wildly off-target comment. You have that momentary blink of sheer confusion—a moment that has doubtless…

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  • AI Morality: Can Code Choose Right?

    AI Morality: Can Code Choose Right?

    Moral decisions are tricky even for us humans who, supposedly, have had a good few millennia to think them over. Enter stage left: artificial intelligence, our newest guest to the morality dinner party. The question is, how well can our metal-and-code companions navigate this famously murky…

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  • Who Owns Your Digital Soul?

    Who Owns Your Digital Soul?

    Have you ever wondered about that quirky cousin on the internet who knows a lot about you—perhaps too much? No, I’m not talking about your actual cousin who takes way too many vacation selfies. I’m referring to your digital doppelgänger—an artificial entity crafted from your data.…

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  • AI vs. Free Will: A Philosophical Showdown

    AI vs. Free Will: A Philosophical Showdown

    Artificial Intelligence and free will—these sound like the opening topics of an impossibly difficult final exam you might take in a philosophy class. Separate, each has been a challenging subject for many thoughtful debates, eyebrow-raising discussions, and existential late-night musings. Together? They pack a conceptual punch…

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  • AI: Shaping or Stealing Identity?

    AI: Shaping or Stealing Identity?

    In an age where algorithms may know us better than we know ourselves, one can’t help but wonder about the role of artificial intelligence in shaping human identity. It’s as if some mad scientist, in the form of AI, has taken a seat on the therapist’s…

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  • AI Autonomy: Freedom or Folly?

    AI Autonomy: Freedom or Folly?

    In a world where artificial intelligence is steadily becoming smarter, faster, and more deeply embedded in our daily lives, the question of autonomy versus control presents itself as a rather important conundrum. Imagine, if you will, the predicament of a parent trying to babysit a teenager…

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  • AI Philosophy: A Paradox Unfurled

    AI Philosophy: A Paradox Unfurled

    Imagine waking up one day to find out your cat has developed the ability to discuss existential philosophy with you over breakfast. Absurd? Perhaps. But the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) feels a bit like that scenario. AI is on the brink of discussions as profound…

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  • Is AI Art Truly Creative?

    Is AI Art Truly Creative?

    In the ever-evolving conversation about artificial intelligence, a fascinating frontier is the exploration of AI art and creativity. We wander not just along the avenues of algorithmic generation, but amidst the deeper inquiries: Can machines transcend their technical constraints to achieve true artistic expression? In the…

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