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Technology Won’t and Can’t Save Us — Not Even Close

Philosopher Douglas Groothuis reflects on what it can really do and what we should not ask it to do
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A cityscape at night, with cell tower with red lights glowing in the night sky. The tower is located in the foreground, and it is surrounded by a dense urban area.

Publishers Are Fighting Hard Against AI Slop — or Are They?

Recent news stories suggest that some are trying to sneak it in, hoping to cut staff and reduce dependence on writers
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Photo editors discussing about photos

Magicians Do the Tricks. Minds Create the Magic

A Las Vegas close-up magician digs into creativity, human perception, and why no two people experience the same wonder
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Consummate mastery of magician

If You Had To Pick a Doomsday, Which One Would It Be?

So many on offer now. Could the worst one be this: discovering that our entire universe is just a giant computer sim?
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A meteorite is about to hit Earth at the end of the world. Space Impact , Illustration from Ai

At COSM: AI Developer Predicts Jobs Boom — for Humans

Elon Musk thinks AI will produce mass unemployment. Chatbot developer Andrew Mayne predicts a jobs boom instead. Who's right?
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robotics engineer in an R&D lab performs diagnostics on an AI-driven collaborative robot (cobot). She is inspecting the hardware and system sensors.

A Philosopher Looks At the Roots of Modern Panpsychism

I’ve argued for years that panpsychism — the belief that everything is conscious — is slowly replacing materialism in science. There’s a logical reason for that
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Exploring Cosmic Consciousness: A Visual Journey into Panpsychism and Transcendence Through the Rule of Thirds Composition in Generative AI Imagery

AI Futurist — Who Abruptly Quit OpenAI — Will Speak at COSM

For most of his career there, Josh Achiam had been a safety officer. He is one of a number of personnel involved in sensitive issues who have left
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Evil Robot Concept with Rogue AI and Malicious Code Depicting Machine Learning Risk

Longtermism: The Rise and Near Collapse of a Valley Philosophy

Valley philosophies may be more influential than we think, especially if we do not even know about them
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transhuman woman with alien blue skin and technological enhancements, glowing eyes and holographic data helmet