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Power to the laypeople!

This is the fourth post in a series on the new questions raised by AI. My previous posts discussed AI risks, the moral status of AI agents, and the impact of AI on peer-reviewed research. In this post, I look at how AI is set to change the...

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How AI will revolutionise peer-reviewed research

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Why has sociology become so politicised?

Recent events, from the widely criticised interview of the president of the US Anthropological Association to the scandal that unfolded around the late Jason Arday, a sociologist of education at Cambridge, have put the spotlight on a discip...

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Should robots be considered as slaves?

This is the second post in a series on the new questions raised by AI. My previous post discussed AI risks.

In Isaac Asimov’s The Bicentennial Man, Andrew Martin, a highly capable robot, progressively shows signs of unusual intelligence an...

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