Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering

of the connections between them. They tapped into our millennia-old desire to understand the mind—indeed, to make sense of intelligence itself—wading further into abstraction than I’d ever ventured, all while they maintained an unmistakably humanistic thread. They exemplified the virtues of science—rigorous and hypothesis-driven—but without ever sa

Suffering can be triggered by numerous causes over which we sometimes have some power, and sometimes none.