13 Articles about AI & the Bigger Questions

If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know - Nature  

AI & Internet’s Existential Crisis - OM

Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. - MIT Tech Review

Author Talks: In the ‘age of AI,’ what does it mean to be smart? - McKinsey

Why humans will never understand AI - BBC

Does an AI poet actually have a soul? - Washington Post 

Is AI Eroding Our Ability To Think? - ForbesThe future of accelerating intelligence - The Kurzweil Library

M.F.A. vs. GPT How to push the art of writing out of a computer’s reach - The Atlantic

What Stephen King — and nearly everyone else — gets wrong about AI and the Luddites - LA Times  

How the AI Revolution Will Reshape the World - TIME

The ‘Manhattan Project’ Theory of Generative AI - Wired

56 percent of respondents think ‘people will develop emotional relationships with AI’ and 35 percent of people said they’d be open to doing so if they were lonely - The Verge