Gender
Margaret Harper McCarthy
Keeping “Biological Sex” on Solid Ground

A Re-examination of “Stereotypes.”

Keeping “Biological Sex” on Solid Ground
AI, Technology
D. C. Schindler
AI as a Very Deepfake

Bringing the dead back to life.

AI as a Very Deepfake
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy

You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.

Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Delete Magisterium AI

Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.

Delete Magisterium AI
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Why Chatbots Are Female

The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female. 

Why Chatbots Are Female

Technology

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Will AI Murder Us All?

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Will AI Murder Us All?

Slavoj Žižek wonders how, if at all, can we—humanity—avoid being filtered?

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Friction-maxxing

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Friction-maxxing

Tech is made for the 99% by the 1%.

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AI: The Hype vs The Real

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AI: The Hype vs The Real

We have a new magazine for you.

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On the Papal Endorsement of Chatbots

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On the Papal Endorsement of Chatbots

Getting dunked on by the Pope.

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AI as a Very Deepfake

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AI as a Very Deepfake

Bringing the dead back to life.

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Scam Me, Baby

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Scam Me, Baby

Gone are the days of the misspelling mail-order bride and au revoir, sweet Nigerian prince.

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Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy

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Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy

You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.

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Delete Magisterium AI

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Delete Magisterium AI

Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.

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In Defense of AI Chatbots

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In Defense of AI Chatbots

Marc Barnes mistakes a call for prudence with a call for prohibition.

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Why Chatbots Are Female

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Why Chatbots Are Female

The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female. 

On Camping

On Camping

Have they been exiled? No—they are camping.  

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Balthasar and the Machine

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Balthasar and the Machine

On the blurring of human and artificial intelligence

We Control the Weather

We Control the Weather

It is useful for the rulers of the earth to play at ruling the air.

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AI On Top

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AI On Top

A new king has arrived—and we’ve given him the crown.   

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AI Chatbots Are Evil

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AI Chatbots Are Evil

 For heaven’s sake—someone had to throw a first punch.

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The Dishes

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The Dishes

I have been patronizing my dishwasher. I have been subsidizing its efforts.

Against Posting

Against Posting

Social media is a machine for the universalization of Posting, such that all human communication becomes a Post in its exterior form, regardless of the interior intention of the poster.

Wendell Berry and Forgiveness

Wendell Berry and Forgiveness

The real reformers, the ones who are most agitated about a problem, often gain their energy from the moral contradiction of being utterly implicated in the very sins they condemn.

Jesus, Take the Wheel

Jesus, Take the Wheel

The trouble with driving, according to Crawford, is that there isn’t enough of it.

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Oh baby! Oh organoid! Oh hell!

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Oh baby! Oh organoid! Oh hell!

Artificial intelligence is not a new frontier for man, but one of the oldest.

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