人工智能

In his TED talk, “The kill decision shouldn’t belong to a robot,” Daniel Suarez described the rise of drones, automated weapons and AI-powered intelligence-gathering tools. Here, he goes further, laying out what he says is no less than a coming “automation revolution.”

人工智能的影响正将人类分裂为”AI拥抱者”与”AI限制者”两大阵营，由此引发深刻的社会困境。前者包括技术专家、资本主义者、自由意志主义者等，热切推动AI发展；后者则对AI潜在风险保持警惕。随着AI持续演进，两大群体间的社会与政治张力将不断加剧，人类必须弥合分歧，共同探索驾驭AI的平衡之道。

Economist Robin Hanson thinks the era of ems — robots with artificial copies of human brains — could occur in the next century. Read his astonishing predictions … and prepare for your jaw to drop.

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AI聊天机器人正处于快速演进的前夜，从情感陪伴、心理治疗到社交训练，其潜在价值不可估量。然而资本主义驱动下的技术竞赛也带来深刻的伦理隐忧——当人类开始与AI建立深厚情感纽带，我们是否真的准备好了？

ChatGPT的兴起引发了人们对教育诚信和社交关系的担忧。然而，自我决定理论告诉我们，人类天生具有学习、创造和建立联系的内在动机。作者认为，只要教育体系能真正激发而非压抑这种天性，技术就不会从根本上威胁我们的学习与交流，人类本性本身足以让我们保持乐观。

But some jobs — and industries — will still require a human touch. Technology researchers Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson have a guess as to which ones.

Around the world, right now, several countries are developing autonomous weapons that use artificial intelligence to locate, track and destroy their targets. AI researcher Toby Walsh explains why that’s a problem.

在马可·坦普斯特的TED演讲中，他介绍了会跳舞、讲笑话、变魔术的机器人EDI，并由此引发思考：为何人类总是赋予机器人类似自身的面孔与表情？文章探讨了人类天生的拟人化倾向，以及我们对仿人机器人复杂而深远的情感投射。

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