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Category: AI Philosophy

  • AI: Enhancing Minds or Eroding?

    AI: Enhancing Minds or Eroding?

    AI, especially in its rapid development and integration into our daily lives, has sparked a renewed focus on our cognitive processes. It’s a little like inviting a new roommate into your mind, and then suddenly realizing they might become the life of the party. As we…

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  • Is Passing Turing Test Meaningless?

    Is Passing Turing Test Meaningless?

    The Turing Test, introduced by the British mathematician and logician Alan Turing in 1950, has long been a cornerstone in the field of artificial intelligence. Essentially, it asks whether a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. A simple enough question, one…

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  • Can AI Truly Care? AEI’s Ethical Dilemma

    Can AI Truly Care? AEI’s Ethical Dilemma

    Imagine it’s Sunday, and you’re discussing a thorny issue with an AI-powered therapist. It nods emphatically, responding with, “Tell me how that makes you feel.” You pause, wondering where to begin the tale of your existential dread about talking to digital emotions. In this surreal scenario,…

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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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