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In a Weekend Doubleheader, Gilder Warns of Silicon Valley and the Planetary Zoo

Reducing the stature and dignity of human beings to that of animals is the whole project of Darwinism or materialism, whatever you want to call it, in a nutshell. Read More ›
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Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›
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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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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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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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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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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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