Jeff JarvisApr 30, 2025
Credulous Princeton prof throws the humanities under the bus after being seduced by ChatGPT.
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring, D. Graham Burnett writes.

The New Yorker
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In a companion piece, Roose declares in an epic banal lede: "One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/ai-welfare-anthropic-claude.html
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?

As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.

The New York Times
Apr 30, 2025 at 1:28amWeb
Show threadoscarfalconApr 30, 2025

@jeffjarvis

The Answer always is and Always will be: "FUCK NO!"... they are ghosts of machine code, abstracts of human-made programming.

Show threadRusty BrainsApr 30, 2025

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AI researchers are still avoiding the big question, “when they become conscious, who owns them?”

Show thread[email protected]May 3, 2025
@jeffjarvis Define intelligence. Define conscious. There's your problem. End of story. Computers are a tool. Like a hammer. Dumb but effective. AI is just baloney.