Published essay ·
Is AI the Monster We Have to Encounter in Order to Understand What We Are?
An essay on the distinction between what humans can do and what humans are, as AI acquires capabilities once used to define human distinctiveness.
As artificial systems acquire capabilities historically used to define human intelligence, the distinction between what humans can do and what humans are becomes more important.
“Before an organism needs to reason about the world, the world must matter to it.”
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