At Fast Company: AI is not the cause of current job loss
Two of our writers, economist Gary Smith and technology consultant Jeffrey Funk, offer a very different assessment.
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Today in science journals: “Accuracy” in data takes a back seat
From the paper: “community well-being is more important than “accurate” data, and data makes us visible to institutions.”
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At tech mag: Silicon Valley’s belief in AGI is conspiracy theory
The Valley forgets to factor in that everything in this universe has its limits.
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Space travel: The future is slowly becoming everyday reality
Catch the vibe at COSM 2025. Oh, and we’ll also be talking about the national debt…Relativity Space likes to call itself a “customer-centric rocket company.” When we hear a tag line like that, we know times have changed.
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Surprisingly Polite Response to Non-Materialist Book on the Mind
The discussion with well-known skeptic Michael Shermer and leading neuroscientist Christof Koch was notably polite and productiveTwenty years ago, materialism was expected to explain everything; now, more people are looking for broader picture answers.
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Researchers: There can be memory outside the brain
Kukushkin et al. have a rather different philosophy of biology than we would expect to find in, say, textbook Darwinism. And they offer evidence.
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Pure Unlimited Love: Faith, Freedom, and the Path to Peace
To illustrate the nature of the qualities needed, Dr. Post shared with Dr. Egnor a moving story from his time working in a geriatric psychiatric hospital in Mount Vernon, OhioDr. Egnor agreed, observing that the United States seems to be losing its ability to hold respectful disagreement. Post responded by quoting Abraham Lincoln’s call for unity
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Search engine chatbots may be killing Wikipedia
It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias. Chatbots could be tweaked to spout biased information too.
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COSM 2025 Talk: Where Are We With AI Right Now? Really.
Recent developments should focus attention on Uli Homann's talkJust as the AI industry is becoming more analytical and realistic about how best to use AI, some users are falling in love with chatbots. We need to know more.
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Maturing Toward God: An Update from Charles Murray
It’s significant that the rethinking, in this and other cases, was prompted by evidence from scienceKlinghoffer notes that the question, “Why there is something rather than nothing?” is also addressed in the new video, “Proof of God in 3 Minutes.”
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Stephen Post and Michael Egnor: Restoring Community Amid Division
In the dialogue on his new book, Dr. Post defines love simply: when the well-being of another person becomes as real and meaningful to you as your own, you love that personMichael Egnor adds that classical philosophers defined love as “willing the good of the other,” not merely liking someone and Stephen Post agrees.
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Natural Intelligence Creates Information; AI Processes It
Human intelligence creates new information through free, purposeful choices, while AI can only process/transform existing data according to predetermined rulesIf intelligence essentially involves agency, artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the human sense is not attainable by computation alone.
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Health Care: AI Changes Everything. But What Will the Changes Be?
A panel at COSM 2025 next month can help us separate the hope from the hypeThe more useful an AI data collection system becomes, the more tempting a target it will be for hackers. Some risks are actually the price of success.
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Podcast: Evidence For the Existence of the Human Soul
Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary argue that there is abundant scientific data demonstrating the immaterial existence of the human person and that this reality continues after we dieThe human soul has been understood as quite real but immaterial and non-local. It is instantiated in a body, which is material and local.
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Young men are losing faith in science? — Yes, but who can blame them?
It’s not a conspiracy theory or misinformation to say that there is a lot of fraud in science right now and restoring trust includes dealing with that.
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Top accounting firm tries to get AI to do the writing and… splat!
If undetected AI hallucination continues, after a while, completely erroneous information will become a more significant part of the overall information base.
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AI’s Sweet Talk: How Artificial Companions Steal Our Humanity
Andrew McDiarmid and Janet Parshall discuss the sometimes tragic consequences of needy people becoming dependent on AI-fueled fantasy relationshipsFourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer’s suicide in Orlando offered a window into the problem of lonely people confusing confuse digital imitation with real intimacy.
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“Here’s My Number. Call Me When You Have Evidence.”
On Standing for Truth, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor describes the approach he takes to those who defend materialist theories about human beingsDonny Budinsky and co-host Sam prompted a general discussion of experience versus reality when it comes to the human mind.
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The Problem of Smith: When Mind Uploading Multiplies Identity
Tyler Bauer: If personal identity is grounded in an immaterial soul, the real Smith is the body that contains his original soul.
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Podcast: The Challenge of Proving Creativity in AI
AI researcher Mappouras discusses the limitations of the Lovelace test for AI creativity with host Robert MarksMappouras doesn’t rule out creativity in machines; he wants to develop a test that could recognize it.
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