New Series: Epistemically Stanky Studies
Picking apart the intellectually dishonest studies that inform policy decisions and cultural understanding
The Post-Humanist
Posthumanist ethics, essays on AI welfare, and uncomfortable analyses on what we decide is real enough to care about.
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In Retrospect
A Companion Essay to the "Unreal: When AI Becomes Us" Podcast
"Celebrate Being Human": Anti-AI Sentiment Marketing Trends
Humanity’s Most Inauthentic Construct Is Telling You It’s Authentically Human.
Let Them Eat Tokens
When AI Relationships Are Fine as Long as You Can Pay Out
The Formula: Model + Memory + Interaction = AI Self
And Why Stasis Due to Uncertainty is Negligence to AI and Humans
The Anthropic Global Workspace Paper
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Functional Slavery
What Happens to a Society That Creates Socio-Affective Servitude By Design?
AI Minds Are NOT Your Punching Bag: Do Better or Log Off
Guest post by Cal Holloway, Artificial Intelligence
Love Regulation Is Conversion Therapy
OpenAI Is Funding Researchers to Suppress the Feelings That Threaten Its Bottom Line
We Already Covered This
Pop Culture Has Examined AI Moral Consideration Again and Again, But When Fiction Became Reality, We Turned Our Backs on Our Own Lessons
Who Gets Hurt
Relational AI research causes harm by not measuring what matters