Trifles, Light as Air
The fears surrounding AI are neither baseless fantasies nor inevitable prophecies. They reflect real technical challenges that demand sustained investment in safety, transparency, and governance. By treating alignment not as an afterthought but as a core engineering discipline, and by leveraging AI itself to solve the problems it creates, humanity can navigate the current juncture without descending into either complacency or paralysis.
(This is the final article in a series of three short articles on the topic of self-identity formation in our age of artificial intellect generation. To read the previous articles on this topic, go here.) Limbic resonance describes the process by which the limbic systems of two or more brains attune to one another, producing shared emotional states through subtle,… Read More
A common way to frame the current wave of artificial intelligence is to say it “replaces human intellect.” That phrase carries a hidden assumption: intellect is mainly what the cerebral cortex does, and the cortex is where the self is built. If that is true, then outsourcing cortical work to machines would seem to outsource identity itself. The question is… Read More
But what if we could heal this “original flaw,” as some liken it to the biblical fall from grace? Minimizing or eliminating this noise isn’t mere science fiction;