What We Still Don’t Understand About AI—and Ourselves
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Just a decade ago, hosts from the TV series Westworld or artificial friends (AFs) from the novel Klara and the Sun seemed like a distant future. These humanoids – with human-like cognitive capabilities – are designed to take care of or entertain humans in ways that humans do for one another. While speculative, science fiction works like such have explored what humanity looks like when AI systems possess and even excel our human abilities, ultimately raising the question of what it means for us as a civilization.