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Michael Egnor
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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Photo credit: Nathan Jacobson.

New Bradley Center Launches; Will Consider Promise and Threat of Artificial Intelligence

The theme of the evening was framed by a question: “Will the Machines Take Over? Human Uniqueness in the Age of Smart Machines.” Read More ›
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Image: Pandora and her box, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligence Is a Pandora’s Box. What’s in There? Find Out Tomorrow!

Get a glimpse at 7:30 pm as we live-stream Discovery Institute's launch of the new Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Read More ›
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Image credit: kalhh, via Pixabay. 

Richards: Using Artificial Intelligence to Sell the Welfare State

There’s an undoubted sense of crisis in the air. Read More ›
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Image credit: kuloser, via Pixabay.

Richards, Medved: Sex Robots and the Future “Smart Machine” Dystopia

There are some definite “Stop the world, I want to get off” moments in the new Great Minds with Michael Medved podcast from Discovery Institute. Read More ›
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Bradley Center to Sort Reality from Rubbish on AI; Join Us July 11 in Seattle for the Big Launch!

I sometimes wonder if hype about artificial intelligence, the wonderful or terrible things it will do for or to us, functions as a deliberate distraction. Read More ›
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Photo credit: kalhh, via Pixabay.

What to Fear? Jay Richards’s The Human Advantage Is Out!

The scary thing about AI and related advances in technology is not what it will to do us — like put us all out of work — but what we’ll do with it to ourselves and each other.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Is There Information in Saturn’s Rings?

Or in a rock? Or a snowflake? This is a common contention from ID critics. Read More ›
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Photo: Has this bee demonstrated a capacity for abstract thought? By RMIT University.

Can Bees Understand the Concept of “Zero”?

The scientists credited the bees with more intelligence than some humans. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Maximilian Schönherr [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards: Press Pause on the Robot Apocalypse

Henry Kissinger has sounded an alarm over AI, and raises questions about machine ethics and the possibility that humans may learn we’re not so special after all. Read More ›

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