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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and COO of Lex Academic

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and COO of Lex Academic

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and COO of Lex Academic

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Rupert Sheldrake

Beyond the Machine Metaphor

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Why We Shouldn't Be Scared of AI

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Can Artificial Intelligence Give Our Lives Meaning?

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Joel Smith, Lydia Farina

A Puzzle About Emotional Robots

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When a Robot Becomes Judge

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Issue 69: AI

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Algorithms We Love By

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Thomas Metzinger

Why we should worry about computer suffering

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The AI ethics hoax

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David J. Gunkel

Robot rights

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Roman Yampolskiy

The uncontrollability of Artificial Intelligence

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Michael R. Heim

Virtual reality and the divided self

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Artificial intelligence and gullible humans

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Decoding digital prejudice

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Brian Patrick Green

Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong

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Mikkel Krenchel, Maria Cury

We should all be worried about synthetic data

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Google's AI is not sentient. Not even slightly

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Roman Yampolskiy

The AI containment problem

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Susan Hespos, Brendan Dalton

Why we have the future of AI wrong

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Why AI must learn to forget

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Emily M. Bender, Chirag Shah

All-knowing machines are a fantasy

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AI may need sleep too

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Bernardo Kastrup

The lunacy of 'machine consciousness'

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Susan Schneider

'Machine consciousness' is not lunacy

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Machine Life

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Alexis Papazoglou

AI and the end of reason

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Controlling the threats from AI

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David J. Gunkel

AI is not intelligent

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AI and the Meaningless End of Meaninglessness

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Do no harm: AI and medical racism