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Et si le plan iA réussisait... où est le plan B ?

Cet article s’inscrit dans l’IA de Sens, une démarche qui vise à rendre les enjeux de l’intelligence artificielle accessibles et à nourrir notre discernement collectif. Comme d’habitude une vidéo présentée de manière ludique pour résumer les propos de cet article. Intelligence artificielle · Gouvernance · Choix collectifs – Un article de la série IA de Sens Un constat d’impuissance et de…

Et si le plan iA réussisait... où est le plan B ?

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Philosophers Move Beyond Proverbial Coffee Bar

Deep Thinkers Play Key Role in Analyzing AI Moral Issues Philosophy majors face head-shaking, brow-furrowing disapproval for wasting a fortune on a discipline with no discernible future. That’s how my parents greeted my news that philosophy would be my college minor. Now it appears a commercial calling for deep-thinking, overly caffeinated philosophers has emerged to ponder and address the very…

Philosophers Move Beyond Proverbial Coffee Bar

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With her bleach-blonde punk haircut, puckish grin and elfin eyes, she could have come to the company's heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle Earth.

-- Berber Jin & Ellen Gamerman, writing in the Wall Street Journal magazine section about Amanda Askell, a philosopher at Anthropic.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883

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The philosophical case against sleeping in

30 minutes in a dreamless sleep are 30 minutes of your life that you will never see again.

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Philosopher Dr Amanda Askell on the ethics of infinity & how to discuss heated topics.

Today’s episode blends such practical topics with cutting-edge philosophy. We cover:

The problem of ‘moral cluelessness’ – our inability to predict the consequences of our actions – and how we might work around it

Amanda’s biggest criticisms of social justice activists, and of critics of social justice activists

Is there an ethical difference between prison and corporal punishment? Are both or neither justified?

How to resolve ‘infinitarian paralysis’ – the inability to make decisions when infinities get involved.

What’s effective altruism doing wrong?

How should we think about jargon? Are a lot of people who don’t communicate clearly just trying to scam us?

How can people be more successful while they remain within the cocoon of school and university?

How did Amanda find her philosophy PhD, and how will she decide what to do now?

The transcript is available.