Artificial Intelligence Debate and Regulation: Kill Switches vs. Flourishing

Philosophers are debating what constitutes a “being” and its “flourishing”; senators cannot agree among themselves but suspect that the philosophers are up to no good, and through it all the everyday man continues about his work. Welcome back, fifth century b.c. Athens.

The only change: The ancient Greeks likely did not have artificial intelligence at the center of their discourse.

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Raleigh Adams is a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School. Her work has appeared in the Front Porch Republic, VoegelinView, and The Dispatch.

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Philosophers are debating what constitutes a “being” and its “flourishing”; senators cannot agree among themselves but suspect that the philosophers are up to no good, and through it all the everyday man continues about his work. Welcome back, fifth century b.c. Athens.

The only change: The ancient Greeks likely did not have artificial intelligence at the center of their discourse.