My announced topic for the month-long residency that’s coming to an end as I write this in (September 2022) was the utility of analogy for
Category: artificial intelligence
An Early Encounter with AI Ethics
I spent part of the last two days (this was 2020) “at” the Ethical Innovation for Artificial Intelligence conference. Learned some stuff and it got
Organizations as Artificial Intelligences
I teach a course called “Human and Machine Intelligence Alignment.” The basic idea is that there are productive analogies to be made in looking at
From the Subjunctive to the Indicative
SUBJUNCTIVE:a grammatical mood expressing doubt, desire, hypothetical situations, or, uncertaintyINDICATIVE: a grammatical mood used to state facts, express opinions as realities, or ask questions As
Alignment and Sacred Texts
I’m working on a course in which we will examine in parallel solutions to problems of human intelligence alignment (how do we get people to
Institutions in the Presence of (super) Intelligent Agents
This is the first in a series of essays in which I try to think through the question of what assumptions social institutions make about
Innoeduvation 