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Let us agree to disagree about Dennett. I still maintain that it really does matter that we try to understand…
If think that if you talk to anyone in math, they will agree that AI is revolutionizing the subject and…
Not entirely parody. David Wallace complains that the Chinese Room Argument has been much criticised. My rejoinder: So what? Every…
I think this is a significant misreading of Dennett, but it would probably take us too far afield to settle…
“So fine, AI is dangerous, it poses potentially catastrophic risks. But so does many other things, let me add, from…
I think there is little to question about these remarks concerning risks – especially by those, like me, who have…
My “headline” was a reference to the earlier thread on “existential” risk. I’ve written multiple times about the threat to…
Elizabeth Brake (ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she she will start next academic year.
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