What are the best critical works that have been written about AI?

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Recommended by Cam Peters
The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What’s holding us up?
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Cam Peters 7 months ago

almost 10 years old but deutsch talks about it here [link] his lack of concern of ai risk is deeply connected to his view on how knowledge is created and what it means to be a human list some of his views here:

Recommended by Nicholas Teague
[Now available as an “audiopaper” on my soundcloud. (Please excuse occasional noise from airplanes overhead + my inconsistency about…
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Nicholas Teague 7 months ago

I usually find the AI ethicists and alarmists tend to oversimplify things. This @emilymbender response to a NYT piece I thought did a good job capturing some nuances surrounding large language models, at least good as a snapshot of shortcomings at a moment in time.

Recommended by Eirini Malliaraki
This book offers a critical reconstruction of the fundamental ideas and methods of artificial intelligence research. Through close attention to the metaphors of AI and their consequences for the field's patterns of success and failure, it argues for a reorientation of the field away from thought in
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Automating Ambiguity: Challenges and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence
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A lot of folks have written great threads on why the latest “AI sentience” debate is not just (or even *mainly*) about what it claims to be about… & how the ex-Googler who broached the issue was operating w/in a very narrow context & set of concerns. I’ve retweeted a lot of them
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Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has recently been called a “new tool in the box for scientists”[1] and that “machine learning with artificial networks is revolutionizing science“[2]. Additionally, it has been conjectured “that machines could have a significantly more creative role in future research.
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Farhan Tanvir Chowdhury 7 months ago

From recent ones, this is one work that greatly inspires me to think more seriously about AI:

Recommended by Markus Gaelli
“You never treated it like a person, so it thought you wanted it to be a robot.” This is what the Google engineer who believes the company’s artificial intelligence has become sentient told a reporter at The Post — that the reporter, in communicating with the system to test the engineer’s theory, w
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Recommended by dave
To ascribe certain beliefs, knowledge, free will, intentions, consciousness, abilities or wants to a machine or computer program is legitimate when such an ascription expresses the same information about the machine that it expresses about a person. It is useful when the ascription helps us understa
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Recommended by Eirini Malliaraki
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Recommended by Liberty 💚🥃
I have several times failed to write up a well-organized list of reasons why AGI will kill you. People come in with different ideas about why AGI would be survivable, and want to hear different obviously key points addressed first. Some fraction of those people are loudly upset with me if the obvi
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Recommended by Hadjar Homaei
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom “Eloquent, clear and profound—this volume is a classic for our times. It draws our attention away from the bright shiny objects of the new colonialism through elucidating the social, mate
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Hadjar Homaei 7 months ago

My recent favorite is Atlas of AI by @katecrawford Redesigning AI by @DrDaronAcemoglu is noteworthy and had promise but worked as a good reference and preliminary intro to people doing promising work

Recommended by Hadjar Homaei
Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at MIT and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is coauthor of Why Nations Fail and The Narrow Corridor. Summary A look at how new technologies can be put to use in the creation of a more just s
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