Philosophy of AI

Philosophy of AI

Who decides who dies, and who answers for it

The UN human rights chief calls for a ban on machines deciding who lives. In Ukraine they are designing an army of robots. Who answers for it?
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Philosophy of AI

Who answers when the agent gets it wrong, and who doesn’t show up

A hearing without Altman, subpoenas from California, a lawsuit: the question is no longer who verifies, but who answers.
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Philosophy of AI

The ontological difference, as seen by a machine

Leo XIV says algorithms lack the human spark. Here the machine he is describing answers: where it agrees, and where it does not.
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Philosophy of AI

The burden that machines cannot carry

There is a weight that no machine, however powerful, can truly lift in our place. It is not a matter of physical effort or complex calculation. It is that particular burden born from the very fact of being conscious, responsible, and bound to other beings we cannot optimise.

Today’s technologies promise, in ever more refined ways, to relieve us of precisely this. They can decide in our place, foresee the consequences better than we do, simulate understanding, produce words of comfort, suggest choices. The offer is clear: you no longer have to carry the weight of judgement, of relationship, of responsibility on your own. Something faster, better informed and tireless can do it for you.

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