What Is Agentic AI and Why 2025 Was the Year It Started Mattering
Quick take: Agentic AI refers to AI systems that take sequences of actions to accomplish goals — browsing…
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How Self-Driving Cars Make Life-or-Death Decisions — The Ethics of AI on the Road
Quick take: Self-driving cars don’t make ethical decisions the way humans do — they optimize sensor data through…
Why AI Consciousness Is the Wrong Question to Be Asking
Quick take: Whether AI is conscious is unanswerable given our current scientific and philosophical understanding of consciousness. The…
Can AI Be Creative? What the Debate Actually Reveals About Creativity Itself
Quick take: Debates about whether AI is “really” creative reveal more about our contested understanding of creativity than…
The Copyright Wars Over AI Training Data — Who Owns What an AI Learned?
Quick take: The legal status of training AI on copyrighted content is actively contested in courts globally. AI…
What Does It Mean for an AI to Be Aligned — and Why Is It So Difficult?
Quick take: AI alignment means ensuring an AI system pursues goals that are genuinely beneficial to humans rather…
Why Deepfakes Are Harder to Detect Than You Think — and Getting Harder
Quick take: Deepfake detection is a technical arms race that detection consistently loses over time. As detection methods…
The Case For and Against AI Regulation — What’s Actually Being Debated
Quick take: AI regulation debates involve real disagreements about risk severity, who should set standards, how to regulate…
How AI Is Changing Healthcare — Diagnosis, Drug Discovery, and the Limits of Both
Quick take: AI has produced genuine breakthroughs in medical imaging and drug discovery, with diagnostic AI matching or…
Why AI Bias Is a Technical Problem Before It’s a Political One
Quick take: AI bias — systematic errors in AI outputs that affect groups differently — originates in training…