Category: AI Philosophy
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Should AI Be Allowed to Lie? The Shocking Truth
Imagine you are chatting with an AI assistant. Maybe you’re asking it if your new shirt matches your shoes, or perhaps you’re discussing a problem at work. Now, imagine that—unbeknownst to you—the AI is lying to you. Not just a playful fib, but an intentional deception.…
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Befriending AI: A Human Risk or Reward?
Most people, at some point, have chatted with their phone’s virtual assistant—if only to ask for the weather or to settle a debate about the capital of Mongolia. But lately, these exchanges have become something more. So-called “AI companions” boast personalities, memories, and always-available ears. As…
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Is AI Killing True Creativity?
If you’ve been anywhere near a screen in the last few years, you’ve seen it: a flurry of images, poetry, stories, and even music, all purportedly “created” by artificial intelligence. At first, it was fun—imagine your cat dressed as a Renaissance knight riding a bicycle through…
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When Machines Decide Who Lives or Dies
Picture this: A trolley barrels towards five unsuspecting workers on a track. You stand by a lever. If you pull it, the trolley diverts to another track—where it will endanger just one person. This is, of course, the Trolley Problem, philosophy’s favorite ethical exercise and perhaps…
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Should AI Get Credit as Artist?
If a tree falls in a forest and a robot writes a poem about it, who gets credit—the tree, the robot, or the human who built the robot? This is not just a whimsical question for philosophers with too much time on their hands. As artificial…
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Whose Values Will AI Really Serve?
Imagine, for a moment, that you’ve been assigned to build the world’s most sophisticated waiter. It takes your order, serves your food, never spills the wine, and is endlessly polite. Now, suppose a table of a thousand people, each with their own customs and beliefs, begins…
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Can AI Really Be Creative or Just Copy?
Ask any artist, and they’ll tell you: creativity isn’t just about making things. It’s about the flash of insight, the leap of imagination, the strange compulsion to draw a moustache on the Mona Lisa. For centuries, creativity has been the exclusive domain of humans—a messy, magical…
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Is the Turing Test Dead Yet?
It has been more than 70 years since Alan Turing famously asked, “Can machines think?” and offered his clever, pragmatic answer: let’s see if a machine can fool a human into thinking it’s another human. Thus was born the Turing Test, a notion so ingeniously simple…
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Should AI Forget or Hold Grudges?
Memory is a tricky thing. For humans, it’s often unreliable—prone to bias, misplacement, even total reinvention. For artificial intelligence, memory is both more precise and more problematic. AIs don’t simply forget. They accumulate data, sort it, and, if we let them, remember it indefinitely. But recently,…
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Who’s Really to Blame When AI Fails?
Nowadays, if you stub your toe or make a spelling error, it’s tempting to blame artificial intelligence. Somewhere, a tired chatbot is rolling its virtual eyes. But the more captivating question is what happens when AI really does something that matters—and something goes wrong. When an…