°°°°~x§x-<@> In May 2026, two simultaneous papers in Nature announced the arrival of the “automatic scientist” — multi-agent AI systems capable of formulating hypotheses, designing protocols, and analysing data with minimal human supervision. Co-Scientist (Google/Stanford) reproduced in days a hypothesis that had eluded human researchers for nearly a decade. Robin (FutureHouse) cut drug discovery time …
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°°°°~x§x-<@> Executive Summary The content of this article was generated with the help of a LLM (NotebookLM) from the analysis of the videos, so please check the sources for a more accurate analysis. This document synthesizes the core themes, arguments, and conclusions from the Mind & Life Institute’s “Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics” dialogue (10/2025). …
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°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The application of new AI technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML), to strengthen democracy must be carefully scrutinized through the lens of Ezequiel Di Paolo’s enactive philosophy and Barbara Stiegler’s critique of expertocracy, as these thinkers challenge the foundational computational and elitist assumptions often underlying such technologies. Based …
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°°°°~x§x-<@> Question How can we use PDP (Parallel Distributed Processing) AI / “machine learning” techs to strengthen democratic individual collective intelligence and counter the excessive self-destructive and convergent path (fascism) of global neoliberal capitalism ? ChatGPT answer Great — love this question. I’ll answer in three parts: (A) how the PDP/connectionist paradigm maps onto collective …
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