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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 5, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, algorithms, artificial intelligence, contagion, democracy, economics, Google, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, power, The Atlantic, tyranny, Walter Bradley Center, Yuval Noah Harari}

Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology

_{David Klinghoffer
September 5, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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“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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Date
June 10, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, Henry Kissinger, humans, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Mike Keas, podcast, robots, The Atlantic, The Human Advantage}

Jay Richards: Press Pause on the Robot Apocalypse

_{Science & Culture
June 10, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Date
June 6, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, artificial intelligence, consciousness, Henry Kissinger, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Mike Keas, podcast, smart machines, The Atlantic, The Human Advantage, work}

Jay Richards: Kissinger on the New World of Artificial Intelligence

_{Science & Culture
June 6, 2018

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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AI is about statistical processing, not budding consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 28, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, artificial intelligence, Bible, civilization, contagion, Europe, Henry Kissinger, machines, metal, paper, Politics, printing press, Reformation, religion, René Girard, silicon, Spain, The Atlantic, thought, Wesley Smith}

Kissinger and Girard on Artificial Intelligence

_{Michael Egnor
May 28, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Any genuine understanding of the impact AI will have (and is having) on humanity must begin with Girard. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, artificial intelligence, cognition, computation, computers, Enlightenment, Henry Kissinger, human beings, machines, money, personhood, Pinocchio, The Atlantic, toaster, transhumanism}

Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 18, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 25, 2018

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __cedited, abortion, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, free speech, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, Sarah Chaffee, scientists, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal}

Intelligent Design’s Witness Protection Program

_{David Klinghoffer
April 25, 2018

Scientific Freedom

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Yesterday I was involved in negotiating email contact between an ID proponent in academia and a professor who’s not an ID proponent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __cedited, abortion, abuse, censorship, Darwinism, Donald Trump, Free Science, free speech, intelligent design, Islam, Kevin Williamson, media, National Review, scholars, scientists, The Atlantic}

Kevin Williamson and All That: Missing the Big Story on Free Speech

_{David Klinghoffer
April 8, 2018

Evolution, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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People who care about defending freedom of expression are grateful for just about any attention the issue receives from the media. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 3, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __cedited, Darwinian theory, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, evolution, George W. Bush, God and Evolution, H.L. Mencken, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, media, Michael Keas, podcast, Politics, popular culture, The Atlantic}

Two Laws of Discourse About Science in Pop Culture

_{David Klinghoffer
April 3, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Reporting

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As presented by prestige media outlets, the evolution debate never really advances beyond 1925, the year of the Scopes trial. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, animal rights, beef, chicken, environmentalism, healthcare, marijuana, meat, Paris accords, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, supermarket, The Atlantic}

Here Comes the Push for a Tax on Meat

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2018

Bioethics

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Because you know, eating meat to environmentalists and animal rights activists is a terrible sin. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, __cedited, anti-science, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, Ethan Siegel, evidence, evolution, Justin Trudeau, Kirk Durston, multiverse, naturalism, PNAS, post-modernism, Sarah Chaffee, science, Scientific American, scientism, Slate, The Atlantic, UFOs}

How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 17, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›