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Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia

It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias, very much including the subject of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Read More ›
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John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

Searle’s most famous argument is undoubtedly the Chinese Room argument, first presented in his essay “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980). Read More ›
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An Intelligent Design Addendum to AI Horror in Connecticut

Once the AI determines your preferred viewpoint, it will tell you what the algorithm "thinks" that you want to hear. Read More ›
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In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT. Read More ›
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Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›
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Jay Richards: AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox

Dr. Richards punctures the illusions of AI hype. One is that AI is something really new. Read More ›
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False Science: A Claim to Simulate Protein Evolution

The researchers designed a simulation tool, and then falsely claimed that it represents the evolutionary process. Read More ›
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Bill Dembski: Pursuing Truth and Trust in AI and LLMs

Dembski and I also explore the potential for AI to enhance human capabilities and education if used judiciously. Read More ›
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My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design 

In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›

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