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AI Psychosis and the Need for Human Exceptionalism

I pronounce you husband and chatbot?

AI is a tool with certain potentials and limits across various fields, but basic anthropological confusion can do a lot of damage. What happens when AI programs cease to be seen as mere tools, meant to used in limited ways and used wisely, and are considered “persons?” It sounds silly to pose the question, but that’s where we are. Futurism writer Frank Landymore reports on an Ohio legislative measure to ban human-AI marital unions. The bill must be intended to be preventative, since AI bots and programs aren’t recognized as legal persons (yet), but it speaks to a cultural trend that, if undealt with, could blow out of proportion. Landymore writes, Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly Read More ›

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Turing Test 2.0: A Better Way to Test Machine Intelligence?

On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks speaks with Dr. Georgios Mappouras about his proposal for a more rigorous test for measuring artificial intelligence. Mappouras argues that the original Turing Test is not enough to determine true intelligence in AI systems, as it focuses too much on simulating human-like conversation rather than demonstrating genuine understanding and problem-solving Read More ›

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GPT 5.0 Doesn’t Understand But Is Eager to Please

Over a number of tries, it couldn’t get the labels on an illustration right because it does not understand what the words mean and how they relate to the image
The test also shows GPT 5.0’s inclination to praise a user’s acuity, whether the user’s comment is correct or incorrect, intelligent of dumb. Read More ›
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In Connecticut, the Horrors of AI Descend with Full Force

AI as “friends” and “confidants”? David Klinghoffer warns that this way of talking and thinking needs to be recognized as encouraging delusion
As John West writes, "essentially OpenAI is using its technology as a replacement for human counselors and advisors." Read More ›
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AI: Tool or Companion?

Personalized AI systems only make sense in a friendless society.
One of the problems of AI-human "relationships" is that, by definition, we cannot relate to a computer, nor can a computer relate to us. Read More ›
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Internal Meta Document Reveals Shockingly Permissive Standards

Advocates call for more safety as AI bots flood the scene

According to a report from Reuters, Meta, parent company of Facebook, has allowed its chatbot to flirt and have “sensual” conversations with children. Meta AI is now accessible on various Meta platforms, and age limits are essentially suggestions, not requirements. Anyone can lie about their age and create an account. Jeff Horwitz writes, These and other findings emerge from a Reuters review of the Meta document, which discusses the standards that guide its generative AI assistant, Meta AI, and chatbots available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the company’s social-media platforms. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage Read More ›

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A phone screen shows a scary AI with glowing red eyes. The AI looks like a cyborg, and its eyes are full of malicious intent. This image the danger of bad AI, like a virus taking over your phone.

Can Chatbots Really Scheme Against Us? Some Researchers Say Yes

When an industry pro tested ChatGPT, it seemed like the system has faced this question a few times before and has been tweaked and edited well
So CAN a chatbot really scheme? No, but the problem posed is a familiar one: We sometimes see what we need to believe. Read More ›
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The State of Reading in an AI World

Are we heading to a post-literate society?
Whatever one’s opinion, it’s still a fact that, unlike a human writer or artist, AI can’t think or feel. Read More ›
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Did Orwell’s 1984 Predict the Rise of AI?

A simple act like writing a diary entry emblemizes the struggle to stay human

Three books stand at the top of the dystopian genre, even several decades after their publication: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury; and perhaps supremely, 1984, by George Orwell. Each novel features versions of a futuristic society in which freedom is restricted (through different means) and foresees a bleak existence governed by the basest impulses in the human race. While Orwell’s masterpiece is typically hailed as a warning of the surveillance state, where individuality is erased in favor of group identity, it is also about the rise of technologies that replace human thought. Novelist Walter Kirn points this out in a recent episode of America This Week: 1984 is the story of the extinguishing, the Read More ›

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AI Still Can’t Think

It can only create the appearance of thought
AI, as a tool, can have a lot of benefits and uses, but as we’ve witnessed time and time again, it often makes mistakes. Read More ›
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AI Blackmail & Clickbait:  Give Us Dirty Laundry

Despite all the hype about AI threatening blackmail, here’s what really happened…
Chatbots have been trained on such stories. People forget it’s just a machine and panic because they think of it as a person who really thinks things. Read More ›
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 Can Deceive and Blackmail

Is AI getting out of control?
In a bizarre twist, Opus threatened to expose a fictional affair if it were to lose its spot to another AI system. Read More ›
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AI: The New Industrial Revolution?

Experts try to guess where AI is heading over the next few years
Perhaps the human conversation alone is argument enough on why AI can never replace us. Read More ›
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Chicago Sun-Times Used AI to Create Fake Summer Book List

The blind trust in AI continues
Humans write the only books worth reading, and, as we’ve now seen, they’re still the only ones who can come up with an actual list of readable books. Read More ›
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Does AI Expose Colleges’ Underlying Problem?

AI could be a symptom of a deeper issue in higher education
The tragedy about AI is that those who depend on it to "think" for them won't have the work ethic, skill, or wisdom to offer value to the world. Read More ›
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AI Language Models: Real Intelligence Or Creative Thievery?

Are AI language models like ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity actually intelligent? Or are they getting away with a creative kind of thievery? Welcome to the Mind Matters News podcast, your source for discussions on all things philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. Today, guest host Patrick Flynn continues his conversation with Dr. Eric Holloway and Dr. Robert J. Marks. The Read More ›

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AI Slop is Invading the Culture, Replacing Writers

The antidote to AI slop is a renewal of aesthetic and literary taste
These soulless data-churning machines are spitting out nonsense so pervasively that they’re beginning to shape the way we actually see the world. Read More ›
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Intelligence Requires More Than Following Instructions

Post-training improves the accuracy and usefulness of LLMs but does not make them intelligent in any meaningful sense — as the Monty Hall problem shows
The danger is not that computers are smarter than us but that we think they are and thus trust them to make decisions they should not be trusted to make. Read More ›
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AI and the Destructive Lies of the Tool Trope

You've heard this, right? “Technology isn’t good or bad; it’s a tool, it’s just how you use it that matters.” False.
Because LLM AIs never understand a single word, image, video, or line of code, they can’t know whether anything they say is right, true, or good. Read More ›