Preserving the Human in the Age of AI
Neil D. Lawrence
UK Festival of Education, Wellington College
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If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Great men may make great mistakes; and as the book tries to show, some of the greatest leaders of the past supported the perennial attack on freedom and reason.
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book: The Atomic Human
twitter: @lawrennd
The Atomic Human pages atomic human, the 13 , baby shoes 368, cuneiform 337, 360, 390, Kuhn, Thomas: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 295–299, Blake, William Newton 121–123, Blake, William Newton 121–123, 258, 260, 283, 284, 301, 306, Cicero and culture 20-21, sorcerer’s apprentice 371-374, Popper, Karl The Open Society and its Enemies 371–374, MONIAC 232-233, 266, 343, human-analogue machine (HAMs) 343-347, 359-359, 365-368, Human evolution rates 98-99, Psychological representation of Ecologies 323-327.
Sunday Times article “Our lives may be enhanced by AI, but Big Tech just sees dollar signs”
Times article “Don’t expect AI to just fix everything, professor warns”
blog posts:
Dan Andrews image of our reflective obsession with AI
Two Types of Stochastic Parrots
Two Types of Stochastic Parrots
Dan Andrews image from Chapter 3
Dan Andrews image from Chapter 3