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The Age of AI Parenting
Altman, while acknowledging that people can and have parented before AI, stated that he cannot imagine parenting without it.
The Exemption Option: AI and Believers
Emerging tools have to justify themselves to us more than we have to justify ourselves to emerging tools.
Don’t Call it a Comeback
We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.
Still Asking Berry’s Question
The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose.
Contra Machinam: An Appeal for an AI Resistance
Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate.
Large Language Models and the New Scholasticism
In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.
Kill the (Robo) Ump!
As I unburdened myself of mask and chest protector I swore I would never again gainsay a ruling, no matter how dubious, of the fellow behind the plate ...
Escaping the Matrix: A Review of Are We All Cyborgs Now?
Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.
ChatGPT Can Code. But It Cannot Discern.
Colleges and universities should focus on forming the uniquely human attributes that AI cannot replicate.
AI and Affection with Berry, Merton, and Capon
We don’t have to ride along.
Writing Is for Humans
They accepted that the law of human judgment was Mercy—after all, that was the law of divine judgment.
When Humans Prefer a Machine: Warnings from a 1960s Chatbot Creator
Chatbots aren’t new. Joseph Weizenbaum created one in 1966. And what happened next led him to become a vocal critic of his own creation. What did he see that we…
AI is Not Like a Calculator, and Other Conversations Worth Having
We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.
Kill Your Epistemic Arrogance
When the algorithm identifies someone as a “gang member” based on human-generated criteria, the model’s “ground truth,” however flawed, becomes a stand-in for reality.
The Land Ethic for AI
We have long drawn a dividing line between technology and humans, imbuing one with ethical responsibility and treating the other as merely contingent— therefore, technologies are “neutral” and it’s simply…
The Abolition of the Human
AI is a technology that eliminates process. It offers the grail without the quest.
What Do Clare Morell and Chuck Magill Have in Common?
Chuck dreams of overcoming his allergy so he can reenter normal society. We reject the status quo because we want something better for our kids.
An Economist’s Take on the Age of AI: A Review of Robert Skidelsky’s Mindless
Skidelsky’s expertise is on full display as he tells the story of the impact of machines on the human condition.
In Praise of “Old”
Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.
Artificial Intelligence for the Artificially Intelligent
Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.
On Nosferatu, Moloch, and AI
Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.
In Praise of the Inefficient
This year I’m renewing my commitment to the sentence.
The AI Invasion: For Humans, It’s Becoming Harder to Write
No question about it: For writers like me, who would like nothing more than to do our own writing and thinking with dignity and intellectual honesty, it’s becoming harder to…
A Modest Proposal: Classical Schools Should Embrace AI
If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.




















