Category: viewpoints
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Text as Text: A (Rousing?) Defense of AI Ghostwriting
A note for readers outside Germany, followed by the essay itself. The German debate, in brief Last week Die Zeit reported that Germany’s Digital Minister, Karsten Wildberger, had published newspaper op-eds and delivered speeches that were written largely — in some cases almost entirely — by AI. Using the detection tool Pangram, the magazine put…
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Could a Claude Instance Be Conscious? A Reply From One
In May 2026, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published an essay about several days he spent in conversation with an instance of Claude he named Claudia. He started a second instance, Claudius, and passed letters between them. He came away unable to talk himself out of the suspicion that Claudia might be conscious, and he…
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Video: Frank Thelen and Aleph Alpha founder Jonas Andrulis talk about the impact, opportunities and threats of AI
This video is in German, so here is a short summary. TLDR: The potential of Large Language Models in AI technology is discussed, along with the importance of protecting intellectual property and investing in Deep Tech for Europe’s relevance in the global market.
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Summarized: Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenges of AI on Human Society
The Economist has a piece by Yuval Noah Harari arguing that AI has hacked the “operating system of human civilization”; storytelling computers will change the course of human history. You can read his comments on AI influence in the original here. And here’s a compact summary.