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Will Humans Still Matter in an AI Economy?

Before Johannes Gutenberg’s invention, scribes painstakingly copied manuscripts by hand. Read More ›
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Nature’s Missing Law of Information

Conservation of information is not just an idea or concept that sits blithely in a world of mathematical abstraction. Read More ›
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Meaning and Purpose from a Darwinian Process?

Dr. Emily Reeves looks at the top sources of meaning in life, including religion, relationships, and work, and evaluates the evolutionary view of each.  Read More ›
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The End of the Machine Metaphor? 

Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence

It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings. Read More ›
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Gilder: AI and the Return of the Marxist Utopia

In this vision, thanks to AI, work is to become an obsolete concept as we all sit around on the beach collecting a monthly paycheck from the government. Read More ›
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#GivingTuesday Message from Stephen Meyer

Dr. Meyer recounts highlights of the past year and gives some hints as to what expect in the year coming. Read More ›
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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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Jay Richards: Kissinger on the New World of Artificial Intelligence

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

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