AI vs. humans: A question of humanity

AI vs. humans: A question of humanity

In a brilliant essay for Noema, philosopher Shannon Vallor dismantles the seductive myth of “superhuman” AI. We hear the phrase everywhere — from tech founders to policymakers — but Vallor warns it’s more than hype: it’s a quiet erosion of what it means to be human. When we label machines as superhuman, we reduce ourselves to task-completing automatons and ignore the richness of consciousness, empathy, and moral imagination. To Vallor, this isn’…

AI Might Be Able To Mimic Things, But It Will Never Speak The Fundamental Truth Of Music (Or Humanity)

Mark Zuckerberg recently went on a podcast to explain why we all needed AI friends. At first, I assumed this was a headline from The Onion. But no, it’s a real thing a human being said. Not content with turning friendship into the performative and damaging algorithmic game of Facebook, Zuckerberg now believes that what we need isn’t real, human connection, but fake friends. In a previous era, he would have been taken from the podcast studio dire…