Introduction Flaming June, by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896), Wikimedia Commons There is a growing fascination with the idea of...

1. Consciousness, Ethics, and the Rise of Digital Minds A recent paper on sentient artificial intelligence opens with a provocative...

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted exams across Europe, governments turned to algorithms to determine students’ final grades. In...

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cann ot be accounted for in...

A short meditation on Descartes, simulations, and the old dream of certainty Portrait of René Descartes by Frans Hals, Wikimedia...

When an AI seems articulate, creative, or responsive, we may see not a tool but a mind. We ask: Is it conscious? But why would we think...

Introduction: The Technocratic Dream AI generated image: Robot saving the world Is ethics a matter of computation, of abstract...

As artificial intelligence progresses, we are increasingly faced with an eerie phenomenon: an intelligence that exists purely in the...

“The most intelligent men, as the most wicked, have always exerted the greatest fascination.” Nietzsche ( Beyond Good and Evil ,...

What Are We Really Worried About? Frankenstein at work in his laboratory, plate from a 1922 publication of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley ...

The human experience is something machines cannot compete with

Detail of David, by Michaelangelo, 16th Century The Growing Question of AI Consciousness For decades, AI consciousness has been the...