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Steve Sloman and Phil Fernbach: How Do You Know That?
Most of us don’t know most things. Yet most of us also think we understand a lot (OK, not quantum mechanics or Federal Reserve policy). We are all living with what Sloman and Fernbach argue is an Illusion of how much we know: a knowledge illusion. And this is fueling the fracturing of society.
Dan Dennett: Fake People Aren’t Funny
Counterfeit people, the seductively appealing Deep Fakes made possible by AI, are just the beginning of what the distinguished philosopher Dan Dennett says is a threat to humanity. This spring, he joined hundreds of other thought leaders in signing a starkly scary statement: AI threatens to make us extinct.