by Mixel Kiemen, Ph.D, Eindhoven University of Technology.*
Around the world, people are worried about Artificial Intelligence. Continue reading Why Being Afraid of Artificial Intelligence Is as Silly as Being Afraid of Artificial Vacuum: How LLMs Are Helping Us Mine Inner Space
My last post about the book, If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us, elicited some particularly thoughtful comments. I would like to draw my readers’ attention to them. Continue reading Will AI Kill Us All?
Many years ago, the research center in Belgium with which I’m affiliated imagined a future form of cybernetic immortality: uploading your mind into the cloud. Thanks to the recent advances in LLM AI agents, we now appear to have reached a point where people are actively pursuing this goal. Here is a brief description of cybernetic immortality. Continue reading Cybernetic Immortality
I read a recent article that begins, “Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real. She was generated entirely by AI.” Continue reading AI-Generated Art, Should We Prefer It?
Daedalus and Icarus, c. 1645, by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)
This essay by Katalin Balog first appeared at 3 Quarks Daily. Reprinted with permission.
In the past, when I asked students if they would want to enter the Experience Machine – a fictional contraption thought up by the philosopher Robert Nozick – they would generally say no. Continue reading Virtual Alienation