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Well, what would the Amish do, I wondered?

Magnifica Humanitas encourages us to not give up on changing the world

AI may be perceived as an “immaterial” technology, but it totally depends on data centers that have intense physical demands.

By heightening emotion, hatred deepens the personhood of both teachers and students.

Generative ai systems, like drugs, impact cognition directly.

“Relationships” between human beings and machines are not real relationships because machines cannot relate to the experience of living a human life.

Make sourdough: as an act of love for your body and your friends and family, and as a remedy against the ills of non-embodied life.

My real fear is not so much that the Internet makes us bad readers, but that it makes us bad writers.

What will it take to sustain the remnants of a contemporary republic of letters on the margins of a public square blasted by machine-speak?

Altman, while acknowledging that people can and have parented before AI, stated that he cannot imagine parenting without it.

Emerging tools have to justify themselves to us more than we have to justify ourselves to emerging tools.

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.

The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose.

Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate.

In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.

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 ...

Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

Colleges and universities should focus on forming the uniquely human attributes that AI cannot replicate.

We don’t have to ride along.

They accepted that the law of human judgment was Mercy—after all, that was the law of divine judgment.

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…

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

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.

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…