Superintelligent AI might be a swirl of many contradictory, competing processes rather than hyper-consistent and hyper-rational
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[I meant to release this here last week, but in the chaos, it ended up stuck in drafts.]
My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online toda
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AI and Consciousness, hot off the press at Cambridge University Press and free online until Aug 26!
Since 2014, I’ve compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent award nominations and “best of” placements over the previous ten years.
the main ideas of my 2024 book, in a 10-minute read
Is the world morally ordered? Do good things come to those who act well and bad things to those who act badly? Do the virtuous thrive and the wicked suffer?
Over almost a decade, starting in 2007, I conducted a series of empirical studies (mostly collaboratively with Joshua Rust) on the moral behavior of ethics professors.
In July, I began circulating a draft of my next book, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights. I set it aside for a couple of months to get some distance on it while it accumulated comments. I’ll soon dive back in for a fresh round of revisions. Comments are still very welcome!
No, because each generation should serve the next, not the other way around (response to Henry Shevlin)
Biological naturalism about consciousness will, I predict, soon be hot.