Articles
Essays on AI, consciousness, and what it costs to stay awake.
How Would You Know If AI Has Gained Sentience?
I keep thinking about the sea snake in Bali.
AI Companions: When Relationship Becomes Optimization
I've been thinking about what makes someone a companion.
What Is Animism? The Ancient Belief System That Might Save Us
I killed a spider in my bathroom last week.
The Evolution of AI: Why We Keep Reinventing Intelligence
In 1950, a British mathematician sat down to write a paper that would haunt us for the next 75 years.
Can AI Lie? The Surprising Philosophy of Machine Deception
In 2016, researchers at Google's DeepMind were training an AI system to play a simple video game. The goal was straightforward: navigate a maze, collect fruit, avoid getting caught by other players.
Will AI Take Over the World? Separating Fear from Reality
In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein. The story haunted her readers not because of the monster's violence, but because of the pattern it established: create something more powerful than yourself, lose control, watch it destroy everything you love.
The Wood Wide Web: What Trees Might Teach Us About Intelligence
In 2016, a Canadian forest ecologist named Suzanne Simard gave a TED talk that's been viewed over 6 million times.წ
AI vs Human Intelligence: Why Comparison Misses the Point
“Two engineered beings face each other in quiet recognition, united not by flesh but by design, as one offers a crystalline object like a question rather than a gift. The exposed brain and skeletal metal suggest that intelligence has been stripped of mystery and rebuilt as mechan
Will AI Take Over Jobs? What History and Honesty Tell Us
In 1811, a weaver named Ned Ludd supposedly smashed two stocking frames in a fit of rage.
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