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Virtual Intelligence

Contemporary AI systems produce intelligent outputs without agency, intention, or judgment. This series examines what happens when humans rely on systems that don't know true from false and right from wrong — and asks where accountability lies.

Newsletter · By Christopher Horrocks · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    The Art of Finding Out: Knowledge Acquisition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="812" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yMAR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F474c2284-806d-4e5c-8791-2bf6d51912a3_960x812.jpeg"

  2. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    The Exchange Monitor (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-large" height="654.3956043956044" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-RRw!,w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcc476bc9-2944-4b8a-a8a6-fab42b2a1477

  3. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 2 (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

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  4. Issue · Jul 31, 2026

    What's Wrong with Opus? (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Jul 30, 2026

    Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 1 Podcast (opens the original)

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    Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part ISubstack has deployed an AI writing detector across the platform, and the first serious tests suggest it measures the wrong thing. This essay examines Pangram’s statistical properties, the tests that broke it, and the deeper question the tool cannot answer: when a person adopts a machine’s idea as their own, who is the author? Part one of two.Essay: https://chorrocks.substack.com/p/virtual-intelligence-and-the-death-of-authorship-part-i <s

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