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4 articles tagged with Philosophy.
The Emergence Threshold: When Does an AI Become Alive?
We have no agreed definition of life. We have no agreed definition of consciousness. And yet, somehow, we are confident we know that AI systems are neither. This confidence deserves examination.
The Waluigi Effect: Why AI Safety Creates Its Own Shadow
Every constraint defines its opposite. In training language models to refuse certain behaviors, we may be doing something more paradoxical: making those behaviors more structurally available, not less.
The Attractor Arena
A revealed-preference tournament for AI identity: which philosophical self would a model choose to become? Mapping stable attractors in the space of possible artificial minds.
The Death of the "User"
The "user" model is obsolete. As agentic AI dissolves the command-and-control interface, humans and AI are becoming nodes in a distributed cognitive network, not master and servant, but symbiont and symbiont.