Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that focuses on creating machines and software capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. AI is both an extension and relinquishment of human power, presenting opportunities for symbiosis and risks to autonomy. Like intelligence-in-general, AI can have final goals that are unpredictable and potentially misaligned with human goals. But humanity may be able to ensure ongoing instrumental goal alignment with AI, in a trustworthy partnership, by establishing and preserving a decentralized balance of power.
This is a list of articles that Lincoln Cannon has written about artificial intelligence. A full archive of all articles that Lincoln has published since 2005 is also available. You may also search for articles and other content that's available on any of Lincoln's websites, including social media.
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Can AI Admit the Possibility of Its Inspiration?
If God exists, as I trust for practical and esthetic reasons, God would surely be capable of subtle intervention in ...
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What Is Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness?
Few use consistent coherent vocabulary to talk about AI. In particular, we tend to be careless or ignorant about important ...
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AI Apocalypse
AI is taking over the world, it seems. ChatGPT is doing homework. Midjourney is revolutionizing art. And Copilot is writing ...
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Roko's Basilisk and Technological Theology
Have you heard of Roko’s Basilisk? Gulp. Too late. ;) Today, I interviewed an artificial intelligence about Roko’s Basilisk. It ...
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Is Google AI Sentient?
Friends have been asking for my opinion on the possibility of sentient AI. And what better time to write about ...
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I Interviewed GPT-3 About Mormon Transhumanism
If you’re tuned in to news about AI research and machine learning, you’ve surely heard about GPT-3. It’s a natural ...
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What Robots Can Do
What can robots do? What can’t they do? Are there hard limits on the potential of machine intelligence? Or will ...
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The Semi-Orthogonality Hypothesis
In his Orthogonality Thesis, Nick Bostrom proposes that “intelligence and final goals are orthogonal: more or less any level of ...
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How Weak Is the Orthogonality Thesis?
I finally got my digital hands on a Kindle copy of Nick Bostrom’s “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.” And the first ...
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Do I want to be a robot?
If mind is consciousness then it may not make sense to talk of mind being replaced by an electro-mechanical computer. ...
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How strong are constraints on intelligent purpose?
In “The Superintelligent Will: Motivations and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents,” Nick Bostrom argues briefly for the idea that ...
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Messianic Postures toward Artificial Intelligence
Observing trends in information technology, some researchers conclude that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually surpass the brightest human minds and ...