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AI talk is fixated on certain legible issues: job loss, liability, speed vs. safety, slop vs. quality, Anthropic vs. the Pentagon.
These issues, though critical, circle around the real issue we all sense but struggle to say: how AI is challenging human meaning and purpose.
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Colossal Biosciences says that in the next year it plans to create an artificial womb. What does that mean for the future of birth?
My latest essay, in the fall issue of @tnajournal, is now out from the paywall: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
How close are we to artificial wombs?
Scientists have been trying since the 1950s. Now the question is no longer whether but when — unless they don't really know what a real womb is.
Hannah Rowan (@Hannah_Cristine) visits the "room where the magic happens":
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature — by Charles T. Rubin, Spring 2003: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls — by Leon R. Kass, Spring 2003: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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Speaking of, here is what we were publishing at @TNAjournal now 20 years ago:
What is the Trump administration's strategy for reforming science?
We asked four science-policy insiders why populists believe President Trump's chaos will revitalize American science.
The first dialogue, between our editor and M. Anthony Mills, is now out from behind the paywall:
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SpaceX's initial public offering of $1.8 trillion was the largest ever.
Yet Mars, Elon Musk's ambitious destination, is an airless desert whose median temperature of -80 degrees Fahrenheit makes it neither particularly warm nor inviting.
Mars, Pennsylvania, however, is both.
Mars, Pennsylvania is warm and inviting — but nobody is bidding trillions to get there. Instead, people seem to want to leave.
But isn't the universe big enough for not just one thriving Mars but two?
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Man, this is good.
Don’t miss this timely essay. Lots of great quotes.
It's always a good day to read Leon Kass on the human yearning to use tech to no longer be human, but today is an especially good day: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
It's always a good day to read Leon Kass on the human yearning to use tech to no longer be human, but today is an especially good day: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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Why have Americans become instinctively skeptical of Silicon Valley and what it aspires to make us into? It's a mystery.
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Yuval Levin throws cold water on the basic assumptions AI leaders are making about the inevitable future of AGI and human replacement:
