Freedom of thought in the age of AI
The philosophical synthesis: can intellectual freedom survive when human beings increasingly think through systems whose cognitive capabilities may exceed their own?
This stream draws the other five together and returns them to the founding concern of the initiative: the conditions under which a person can live an intellectually free life.
It asks what freedom of thought means when the thinker is no longer necessarily the most capable intelligence in the intellectual environment.
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What happens when AI becomes cognitively superior to humans in increasingly general domains?
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What does freedom of thought mean when the thinker is no longer the most capable intelligence present?
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Which conditions of intellectual freedom are newly at stake, and which are unchanged?