What does it mean to be human in a world of generative AI? | Sandy Starr | LIVING FREEDOM 2023

People are fascinated, amused and alarmed - often all three at once, at the generative AI tools that have taken the internet by storm over the last year. Some people welcome the new possibilities that these tools seem to offer for human creativity and flourishing. Others fear the consequences - from students getting AI to write their homework, to artists and journalists losing their livelihood to AI, to reputations being ruined and public discourse polluted by AI-generated scams and 'deepfakes'. What 20th-century events and philosophies originally shaped the invention of AI? What 21st-century phenomena are shaping the way we understand AI now? Will generative AI add to, or detract from, the meaning in our lives?
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Sandy Starr deputy director, Progress Educational Trust, author of the Letter on Liberty AI: Separating Man from Machine
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Computing machinery and intelligence Alan Turing, Mind, Volume LIX, Issue 236, October 1950
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The cynical hysteria around AI Timandra Harkness, UnHerd, 2 June 2023
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