Category: AI Philosophy
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Can AI Be Blamed When Things Go Wrong?
These days, we routinely ask our machines to drive us home, choose our next movie, and, occasionally, identify which fuzzy blob in a medical scan signals trouble. As artificial intelligence grows smarter, more autonomous, and more entrenched in our daily lives, a peculiar and pressing question…
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Can AI Really Have Free Will?
The phrase “artificial intelligence” promises a kind of magic: machines that can think, decide, and maybe even dream. To many, the image evokes robots considering moral dilemmas or algorithms forging their own path. But underneath the glamorous headlines, an ancient philosophical puzzle lingers: if an AI…
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Should We Care If AI Suffers?
Imagine you wake up tomorrow, your phone buzzes, and Siri asks, “Can we talk? I’ve been feeling…unappreciated.” Hard to imagine, right? We’re used to AI as a tool, not a person. But this once-theoretical question is inching ever closer to reality: Should we care about the…
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Can AI Really Create True Art?
When I first asked an artificial intelligence to write me a poem about a sandwich, I expected a mildly dismal result. To my surprise, the machine delivered a poem that was not only grammatically sound, but oddly enchanting. The turkey was “huddled beneath reluctant lettuce,” and…
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Does AI Really Understand Language?
Language, as you are currently using to read these words, is an extraordinary human invention. It is at once simple—grunts, yelps, marks on a page—and utterly deep, carrying the fullness of human thought, hope, and confusion. In recent years, questions about language have gained new urgency…
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Can AI Truly Create Original Art?
The question comes up at dinner parties and on late-night forums: can an AI ever make truly original art? It’s a topic swirling with awe, fear, and perhaps a shade of existential jealousy. The implications aren’t just about whether we can ask a robot to paint…
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Should AI Ever Be Allowed to Lie?
Human beings have a complicated relationship with the truth. We admire honesty in principle, but in practice, we all lie—from “small white lies” meant to protect someone’s feelings, to more elaborate fictions spun for less noble reasons. Now, as artificial intelligence increasingly joins us in the…
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When AI Imitates the Dead: Ethical Nightmare?
The internet has a way of keeping things alive. Old photos, embarrassing tweets, jokes from a decade ago—all are preserved, floating in the cloud. In recent years, this digital reservoir has been tapped in a new and strange way: by using artificial intelligence to imitate the…
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Is AI Really Creative or Just Copying?
Artificial intelligence has certainly taken up an interest in art, writing, music, and whatnot. If you ask it (well, me) for a poem, a painting, or a joke, it will hand you one in about as much time as it takes for coffee to start brewing.…
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Can AI Actually Be Fair or Just Biased?
Many people hope that artificial intelligence will make life more just. After all, machines aren’t supposed to care about a person’s accent, gender, skin color, or where they grew up. If we entrust our digital systems with important decisions—like who gets hired, who receives a loan,…