Truth. Sacrifice. Radical Conviction.

Artificial-Intelligence

St. Titus Brandsma

AI-Generated Disinformation and the Trust Crisis

The disinformation challenge that occupied most of my attention until recently – the deliberate production and dissemination of false information by human actors – has been joined by a challenge that is qualitatively different and, in certain respects, more dangerous.

AI-generated disinformation – synthetic text, images, audio, and video produced by machine learning systems – changes the economics of deception in a way that undermines not just the accuracy of specific claims but the epistemic infrastructure on which journalism depends.

Media Ethics
St. Catherine of Alexandria

What AI Cannot Know

The question of whether artificial intelligence can think is asked frequently and answered badly. It is answered badly because the participants in the debate have not agreed on what they mean by “think,” and in the absence of that agreement, the conversation devolves into competing intuitions rather than competing arguments.

I would like to try something more disciplined. I want to examine what it means to know something – not merely to produce a correct output, but to understand why the output is correct – and then ask whether current AI systems do that, or anything resembling it.

Philosophy