The Weekend Read: Richard King on how ChatGPT is changing how knowledge is shared
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The Technophobic State of Athens
Socrates was also the progenitor of the dialectical method of reasoning on which the liberal university is founded. We need to rediscover our capacity to evaluate emerging technologies in the spirit of what Lewis Mumford called democratic techniques by placing human freedom and flourishing at the centre of our deliberations. That this capacity is the very one that Chachi BT would remove if pressed into service for unscrupulous ends makes this a matter of urgency. we need to start thinking about thinking machines upon pain of a future society in which we become uncanny to one another.
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