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Good News: Young People Are Skeptical of AI — Even if Their Parents Aren’t

ChatGPT. Every student uses it to write papers. So goes the pervading fear, that is. Read More ›
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AI Dependence Makes Us Dumber, but That’s Not the Worst Thing About It

I realized this when I found myself, not for the first time, asking Grok to remind me again how long to bake salmon at 400 degrees. Read More ›
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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›
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Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›
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All the Evidence Points to Design, but the Credit Goes to…You Know What

One of the most objectionable aspects of modern evolutionary theory was the undeserved, unearned credit it steals. Read More ›
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Tech Exec Speaks Truth About AI at COSM

When AI assistants were first released, AI companies faced a problem: people were hesitant. Read More ›
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Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›
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Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing

Not what you heard? Well, if you heard something else from traditional media, maybe those media aren’t so reliable any more. 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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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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