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24 03 21 ai turing test is flawed

The Turing Tests of today are mistaken

How Goodhart's law holds back AI

Raphaël Millière
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Optimism is a key weapon against climate change

We need new narratives to solve the climate crisis

Sarah Jaquette Ray
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24 01 30 ai needs an embodied brain

AI needs the constraints of the human brain

What we learn from an embodied AI brain

Danyal Akarca
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The new geopolitics of climate change

The power of fossil-fuel independence

Simon Dalby
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23 12 12 net zero is half hearted

The dangerous obsession with net-zero

Over-simplifying climate change

Mike Hulme
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The rewilding paradox

A world free of human domination

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Disregarding animal sentience is a stupid move.

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Shinto: How To Reconnect With Nature

Shinto could help us build a sustainable culture.

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All-knowing machines are a fantasy

Beware the human-sounding ChatGPT

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The answer could shed light on a deeper mystery.

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Why electric cars are a mistake

Electric cars won't solve climate change

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A Puzzle About Emotional Robots

Could a robot truly experience human emotions?

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Mushrooms are more like us than we think

A fungal challenge to the Cartesian binary

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A nuclear capitalist future

The environment needs atomic growth

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Do no harm: AI and medical racism

Overturning the dark legacy of the Enlightenment

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
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AI and the Meaningless End of Meaninglessness

A cure for the professional illness of our times

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The end of Oppenheimer's energy dream

Modular reactors are supported by ideology alone

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The end of being human

Evolution in the age of machines

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AI is not intelligent

AI should not be called AI

David J. Gunkel
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AI, Moloch, and the race to the bottom

To escape Moloch, attention is all you need

Ken Mogi
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Controlling the threats from AI

ChatGPT is just the beginning

Wen Zheng
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AI and the end of reason

Seeing through black boxes

Alexis Papazoglou
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The culture of bees and the AI apocalypse

Culture is non-human and dangerous

Grant Ramsey
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Google, Amazon and Plato’s Cave

How to find autonomy in the age of algorithms

Cory Doctorow
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