For Students, Less Tech, Not More — Please!

Andrew McDiarmid, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intimacy, chatbots, ChatGPT, classroom, Common Sense Media, Computational Sciences, Education, focus, friends, Grok, Internet, iPads, Jewish schools, laptops, LLMs, lovers, Mayans, New York Post, Parents, religious beliefs, schoolwork, Sherry Turkle, skydiving, smartphones, social skills, Technology, teens, therapists, video games, willpower, XBOX, young people
This is a struggle going back to before anyone worried about AI. One of my worst decisions as a parent was to allow an XBOX into the house. Source
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It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

Amazon, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Ben Mann, Big Tech, Books, booksellers, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, Computational Sciences, copyright, ISBNdb, Kindle, knowledge, large language models, licensing, LLMs, Peter Biles, Project Panama, technicians, techno-utopianism, technological view, Technology, wisdom
This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Source
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Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

child, Claude, Claudia, Computational Sciences, consciousness, Conversations, design, employee, encyclical, evolutionary logic, humans, Large Language Model, LLMs, machines, men, metaphysics, mice, person, Pope Leo XIV, Richard Dawkins, self-reflection, slave, spiritual communion, Ted Chiang, telos, The Atlantic, The Free Press, Tyler Cowen, UnHerd, wisdom, word-generation machines, writing, zombies
This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Source
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