A Philosopher's Blog

  While it is tempting to focus on a single reason why Harris lost, her defeat was due to the combined effects of various factors ranging from the large to

  110 Fallacies Description: Like the general Appeal to Silence fallacy, the Gish Gallop and Fire Hose of Falsehoods are tactics that involve taking a failure to respond as evidence

  While industrial robots have been in service for a while, household robots have largely been limited to floor cleaning machines like the Roomba. But Physical Intelligence has built a

  In utopian science fiction, machines free humans so they can enjoy a life of leisure and enlightenment. In dystopian stories, machines enslave or exterminate humans. Reality has been, on

  Students and employers often complain that college does not prepare them for the real world of filling jobs and this complaint has some merit. But what is the real

  One of the many fears about AI is that it will be weaponized by political candidates. In a proactive move, some states have already created laws regulating its use.

  When ChatGPT and its competitors became available to students, some warned of an AI apocalypse in education.  This fear mirrored the broader worries about the over-hyped dangers of AI.