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Welcome to Big Tech, Corporate-Owned Chatbots, and the Totalitarian Fantasy of AI Gurus

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By Teresa Heffernan. Originally published in the Halifax Examiner, October 20, 2025. In 2017, at a conference in California organized by the transhumanist Max Tegmark, there was a gathering of many well known players in the AI Industry — to name a few Ray Kurzweil, Demis Hassabis, Nick Bostrom, Eric Schmidt, Willam MacAskill, Yoshua Bengio, Elon […]

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“Basically Alive”: Between the Science of A.I. and the Promotion of Delusion

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— Video of talk; written summary of debate by Karen Asp Divergent perspectives on recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics were evident at a public lecture hosted last week (Feb 14, 2018) at the University of King’s College (Halifax). The keynote speaker, Stan Matwin, presented a nuanced, but largely optimistic view of where

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