Back in March, Hawaii state Sen. Chris Lee introduced legislation urging the U.S. Congress to consider the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence technologies. But he didn’t write it.

The source of many disagreements is that people rely, often implicitly, on two radically different notions of “intelligence." ...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke Consider all of the things that your hand-held cellphone does. It can be a phone, camera, gallery, text, ...

Intelligence, as we often conceive it, is riddled with paradox. We reduce it to metrics, mold it into a resource to be optimized, and tether it to utility—yet its essence escapes such confines.

AI is reputed by some to be approaching general human intelligence. Some might indeed see AI as intelligent as humans, just like AI seems to understand like humans. In an earlier post, I argued that ...

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