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What AI progress teaches us about human psychology
This is the last post in my series of posts on some of the issues raised by AI. Here I discuss how the problems of designing AI agents help us understand why our own minds work as they do.
In The Matrix, the AI Agent Smith at one point unp...
AI and democracy: friend or foe?
This post is part of a series on the new questions raised by AI.1 In this post, I look at how AI is likely to support or undermine democracy.
In George Orwell’s 1984, TV screens transmit both ways. People watch them, and they are watched t...
Will AI stop us getting ripped off?
This post is part of a series on the new questions raised by AI.1 In this post, I look at how AI is likely to empower consumers and reduce firms’ ability to take advantage of customers’ limited information and cognitive capacities.
In 2017...
Will AI mark the end of low quality arguments?
This post is part of a series on the new questions raised by AI.1 In this post, I look at how AI is set to change how we argue with each other.
The philosopher Leibniz, in his 1685 text The Art of Discovery, proposed a symbolic language t...
Are universities on the brink of an Uber-like revolution?
This post is part of a series on the challenges posed by the rise of AI.1 I am fairly optimistic about the possible benefits of AI for society, but at the same time, one should appreciate that such a technology has the potential to disrupt...
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Behavioural economist - Director of the Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the University of Queensland - Author of "Optimally Irrational. The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do" (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
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