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We Are All Bewildered Machines

Bewilderment is the antidote to scientific reductionism.When did you realize you were a machine? A fancy machine, for sure. But one whose parts and operations can be described like the components…By Kevin Berger When did you realize you were a machine? A fancy machine, for sure. Read full Article

Automation may take our jobs—but it’ll restore our humanity (says Dennis Mortinesen, x.ai)

“One implication of all this is that for humans to succeed in the AI-powered future, we need to double down on our humanity. Technical skills will no doubt remain important in the future of work, but as AI allows us to automate repetitive tasks ...

Technological singularity

The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence (ASI) will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization. Read full Article

Damage Control at Facebook: 6 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation

For more than a year, Facebook has endured cascading crises — over Russian misinformation, data privacy and abusive content — that transformed the Silicon Valley icon into an embattled giant accused of corporate overreach and negligence. Read full Article

Automation may take our jobs—but it’ll restore our humanity

For humans to survive the automation revolution, we need to double down on our humanity. The argument goes like this: Artificial intelligence is getting better and better at automating things that humans do. Read full Article