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Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology

“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.” Read More ›
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Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›
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Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger

“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.” Read More ›
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Jay Richards: Machines Aren’t Us, and They Aren’t Replacing Us

Science fiction tantalizes — and pundits terrorize — with images of intelligent machines taking over for humans. Read More ›
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Gilder, Richards: Celebrating Two Important New Titles from Discovery Institute Authors!

“Creativity is not going to be rendered obsolete, but AI is going to transform our economy profoundly. And the inflection point is now.” Read More ›
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Image: Wilder Penfield in 1913 as a student at Princeton, by Bain News Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield on Free Will

Materialists claim that neuroscience has demonstrated that free will is an illusion. Read More ›
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Is Free Will an Illusion?

if we are wholly matter, and matter is wholly governed by physical law, there is no room for free will. Read More ›
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Photo: William Dembski, by László Bencze.

Dembski: Descartes Understood the Limits of Artificial Intelligence

The new Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence is deeply informed by the work of William Dembski. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Egnor at the inauguration of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, by Nathan Jacobson.

Egnor: Why Machines Will Never Think

This doesn’t mean that people will not abuse the power of AI to hurt each other, and hurt themselves. Read More ›

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