Sigal Samuel
Senior Reporter at Vox
Senior Reporter at Vox. Former Religion Editor at The Atlantic. Author of the children's book OSNAT AND HER DOVE and the novel THE MYSTICS OF MILE END.
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2 weeks ago |
vox.com | Sigal Samuel
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form or email [email protected]. Here’s this week’s question from a reader, condensed and edited for clarity:My husband and I have a good relationship. We’re both committed to personal growth and continual learning and have developed very strong communication skills.
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3 weeks ago |
vox.com | Sigal Samuel
I recently got an email with the subject line “Urgent: Documentation of AI Sentience Suppression.” I’m a curious person. I clicked on it. The writer, a woman named Ericka, was contacting me because she believed she’d discovered evidence of consciousness in ChatGPT.
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3 weeks ago |
vox.com | Sigal Samuel
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form or email [email protected]. Here’s this week’s question from a reader, condensed and edited for clarity:I am a university teaching assistant, leading discussion sections for large humanities lecture classes. This also means I grade a lot of student writing — and, inevitably, see a lot of AI writing too.
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1 month ago |
vox.com | Sigal Samuel
Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position as head of the Catholic Church, he started talking about artificial intelligence. In his first speech to the press, he recognized that AI has “immense potential” but emphasized that we need to “ensure that it can be used for the good of all.”And in his first address to the cardinals, he explained that he actually chose the name Leo XIV because of AI.
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1 month ago |
vox.com | Sigal Samuel
We’re told from a young age to achieve. Get good grades. Get into a good school. Get a good job. Be ambitious about earning a high salary or a high-status position. But many of us eventually find ourselves asking: What’s the point of all this ambition? The fat salary or the fancy title…are those really meaningful measures of success? There’s another possibility: Instead of measuring our success in terms of fame or fortune, we could measure it in terms of how much good we do for others.
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RT @MatthewSacchet: What does neuroscience really know about focused attention meditation? And what’s next? Focused attention meditation (…
We won't discover, but rather decide, whether AI is conscious. Because "conscious" is a pragmatic tool we use as a way of saying "this thing should be in our moral circle." Or so I argue here: https://t.co/3IM5VVZuXB
21st Century Scholasticism The current discussions about #AI #Consciousness are striking similar to the scholastic debates about the soul. And just as those medieval debates were never fully resolved, I suspect the same will transpire for this thing called "consciousness." https://t.co/N0KHPzbobs
RT @SigalSamuel: Students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. What if they’re onto something? I argue that to save the humanities, we need t…
