Without up-to-date technology, Gelsinger believes, money spent on ministry could largely be wasted.
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The editors of Nature are pushing back against the notion that a machine can be the moral equivalent of a human being.
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Scientific American notes that the human mind is the hardest problem in science, with no theory emerging as persuasive. COSM will offer a reality check.
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The current director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, thinks that we need a second scientific revolution to deal with this problem.
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Could a modern writer come along and produce Orwell’s work, using AI? Possibly, but someone actually had to be Orwell first — to experience those events and write them down.
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We must put technology in its place, as with all works of human hands. And, as with all human works, when they become idols, we are called to topple them.
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Many people can write well without AI but the publisher must pay them. They are slashing staff and using AI instead because people aren’t reading as much.
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Mayne argues that there will always be more demand for people to do things as prosperity grows. Historically, that is correct.
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How to respond: Vigilance and caution? Sure. Terror and passively giving in? Human exceptionalism says “no” to that.
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Achiam on rogue AI: The concept of ‘identity’ for a rogue AI may be much more malleable than for that of a person; it just has to be, in essence, a self-replicating idea.
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At COSM 2026, his message will be that overall, AI—properly handled—will be positive for humanity.
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That makes me wonder how serious they really are about claiming AI personhood or reflecting on its consequences.
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Anthropomorphism has nothing to do with electronics as such. But there are new perils.
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Why had no one tried using an AI detector on Orélien’s—and everyone else’s—work as a *condition of entry* into the writing contest?
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In addition to the Doomers, there is the AI rights crowd, worried that we will reduce intelligent AI agents to slavery.
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Not as a computer guy but as a litigation lawyer, I’m looking at the Hugging Face intrusion incident in July 2026.
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Understanding the human body and diseases, and identifying a target for a drug, is more important than designing a drug.
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Anyone who thinks AI can be sentient have to believe in panpsychism, as the chips for computers are made of silicon, derived from sand and some other minerals.
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Some researchers seem to think that communicating with animals via AI will show that they have minds like human ones. But their behavior does not suggest that.
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Meta has made billions of dollars monetizing our attention. Why not monetize our loneliness, too?
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