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How We Lost Our Soul (opens the original)
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Last week, at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, I was honored to give a short presentation about AI personhood alongside my colleagues at a faith workshop, asking the question of how to understand and respond to claims to AI personhood and consciousness.But instead of bringing arguments against AI personhood to a panel of religious thinkers who all agreed on this point, I began thinking about something else. After watching interviews with AI founders, people like Ilya Sutskever and others wh
All the Important Things We Cannot See (opens the original)
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In the mid-1990s, I spent many afternoons at my grandparents’ apartment in Tel Aviv, where I would usually go after school.1 Sitting cross-legged on the cool tiled floor, I would listen as my grandmother read aloud from her worn Soviet edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in Russian. Spellbound, I sketched my own illustrations as she spoke, trying to capture the magic with my markers. Since then, I have returned to the book in English, Hebrew, and French. Translated into nearl
I Wanted to Make a Case for God. Suddenly, I Had Nothing to Say. (opens the original)
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Podcast: Intelligence Without Heart — What AI says about consciousness and God (opens the original)
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Rough Around the Edges (opens the original)
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English was the third language I learned. I was twelve when I moved to Canada, and our relationship began as a struggle.At first, English seemed to me, much like the kids at my new school, pretentious without much to show for it. On the surface, it lacked both logic and aesthetic sense.Russian, my first language, is wonderfully commutable. You can say a phrase in almost any order and it will still make sense. It is like multiplying two by four or four by two and getting the same answer, only wit
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