26 Articles about Defining Human (apart from AI)
/Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions - “Judgment is a uniquely human skill.”
ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind - “We need to redefine “intellect” so as to make it work in an AI-driven world. It’s easier to define it via negativa, by what it is not.”
Will AI destroy us? Consider the nature of intelligence. - “Intelligence is fundamentally about processing information to further the goals of life.”
If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious - “We don’t have a theory of consciousness”
AI is becoming introspective - “One of the most profound and mysterious capabilities of the human brain is introspection.”
What Does It Really Mean to Learn? - “A.I. systems are not as flexible as human minds because they are not yet educable.”
What Is The "Divine Image" in the Age of AI? - “Does AI obscure the divine image in the human person?”
We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI - “In that moment we were at odds about the essence of humanity.”
Humanizing AI Is a Trap - “LLM systems cannot provide the experiences that users associate with human interaction, such as genuine empathy, emotional connection, or confidentiality.”
We must build AI for people; not to be a person. - “So what is consciousness?”
On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism - “Panpsychism is the belief that consciousness is inherent in all matter.”
Bringing AI to medicine requires philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethicists - “What is the question to which human judgment is the answer?”
Philosophers and a psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to AI - “We need to find ways of focusing on living a distinctly human life.”
Rage against the machine - “There is tendency of some scientists to take for granted what can only be described as a wildly simplistic picture of human and animal cognitive life.”
What real bodies can show artificial minds - “A fundamental facet of intelligence found across the entire animal kingdom is beginning to be unraveled”
Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding - “What’s really remarkable about people … is that we can abstract our concepts to new situations,”
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness - “We survey several prominent scientific theories of consciousness. From these theories we derive ‘indicator properties’ of consciousness’”
Final Fantasy 15's AI is secretly a grand philosophy experiment - “The act of designing and analyzing AI is an opportunity to reframe our conceptions of existence for the better.”
There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence - “Successfully pretending to be human is proof of nothing more than the ability to successfully pretend to be human.”
AI isn’t conscious—but we may be bringing it to life – “The question ‘Is the AI conscious?’ is less meaningful than ‘Is the user extending his/her consciousness into the chatbot?’
We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious – “There are activations that light up in the models that we see as being associated with the concept of anxiety.”