On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays

Our tools can enable us to do all sorts of wonderful and meaningful work, as well as facilitating destruction and misery. But they cannot tell us how to think or how to feel or how to dream. There is always humanity behind such things. Which is something we should never forget or allow to be hidden from us. This is the root of a

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People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are competing with a myth. Instead, people should train themselves to be better humans even as they develop better AI. People are still in control, but they need to use that control wisely, ethically and carefully.

Some of the most poignant arguments against AI and artificial consciousness stem from the existentialist and phenomenological traditions, notably those of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (who was well-steeped in the neuroscience of his time). Their views, once ridiculed and ignored by AI scientists, have found their way ... See more