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These essays are a philosophical interpretation of the new revolution humanity fell into by creating artificial intelligence—and of this revolution we are living through together.
From Luther's 1546 donkey-and-boat case to the Tesla verdict: agency is not discovered but assigned — and unassigned, it falls to the weakest link.
On the agency of artificial intelligence, the legal weight of what it does, and the human share in that equation... A legal question asked in 1546 Among the notes taken down at Martin Luther's table in 1546, there is a case. A miller's donkey gets out of the yard and wanders down to the river…
Read more →From Descartes to Buddhist anatta: why the argument about artificial intelligence is really an argument about what a human being is.
Read more →The METR study, Paul David's dynamo paradox and the Collingridge dilemma show why we cannot measure a technological revolution from inside it.
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