Artificial Intelligence Philosophy

Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be. Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence and what it would take to get there.  

This is a practical, non-technical guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and curious minds. This comprehensive guide on agentic AI cuts through the hype and offers a clear, jargon-free strategic roadmap to understanding and applying this technology. The authors bring a rare perspective, having implemented agentic AI across diverse organizations—from global enterprises to agile startups—witnessing both remarkable successes and sobering failures.

There is nothing more unsettling than watching the inanimate begin to think. For centuries, humans have wondered what it means to have consciousness, what separates a machine from a living being, and what place the mind occupies in the vast ocean of the universe. Questions that have inhabited philosophy, religion, science, and literature. Today, these questions no longer belong solely to speculation: they brush against reality. Artificial intelligence has ceased to be merely a set of algorithms designed for precise calculation. It has become a mirror reflecting the image of the human — a ...

The economy is changing faster than ever. Are you ready for the AI revolution? Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it is already transforming industries, reshaping jobs, disrupting business models, and redefining the global economy. The decisions made today will determine who thrives, who struggles, and how society adapts to one of the greatest technological shifts in history. The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Next Economic Revolution cuts through the hype, fear, and speculation to reveal what AI really means for workers, businesses, investors,...

Everyone keeps telling you artificial intelligence will change everything. No one tells you where to actually start.You've watched the hype pile up — ChatGPT, AI agents, generative AI, "agentic AI," a new tool every single week — and the gap between you and the people who "get it" keeps...

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.

“Kamau Bobb writes with a piercing clarity about race, history, and technology that does not comfort but confronts. His words do not allow you the luxury of distance. They leave you sharper, more aware, and undeniably changed about the AI crisis we are living through.”—Bettina L. Love...

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and...

What if the human mind is not a machine? In an age of artificial intelligence, algorithms, neural networks, and digital simulation, modern civilization is increasingly tempted by one powerful idea: consciousness is computation. The brain is hardware. Thought is software. Memory is storage. Understanding is output. Given enough complexity, the machine will become a mind. Roger Penrose refused to accept that answer. In Penrose and the Quantum Mystery of Mind, Clayton Louis Turnage explores one of the boldest and most controversial challenges to the machine model of consciousness. Penrose, a ...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now...

A CLEAR, ENGAGING JOURNEY INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BEGINNING WITH THE HUMAN MIND. How does a machine learn to predict, reason, and plan? How Minds Are Made explains artificial intelligence from the inside out, guided by one powerful idea. Intelligence depends on building models of the world and using them to anticipate what happens next. You’ll discover how human minds understand the world around them and how machines learn to do things once thought possible only for us.

Artificial intelligence is amplifying human ingenuity and disrupting the foundations of health care, military, entertainment, education, marketing and manufacturing. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power argues that this AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power.

Confused by Artificial Intelligence? You're not alone—and you don't need a technical background to understand it. Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way we work, communicate, learn, and solve everyday problems. This beginner-friendly guide explains AI in simple language, without confusing technical jargon.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity—a historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in...

The Complete Guide to Logic: Reasoning, Argument, and the Structure of Thought is a comprehensive and intellectually rigorous introduction to the art and science of reasoning. Written by philosopher and psychoanalyst Deivede Ferreira, founder of ABRAFP — the Brazilian Association of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis — this volume presents logic not as a narrow collection of symbols, but as a living discipline that connects formal structure, language, evidence, explanation, judgment, and responsible decision-making. From Aristotle and Stoic logic to modern predicate systems, probability, ...

The Mind of Peter Thiel is a clear and compelling account of one of the most influential and misunderstood figures of our time. Peter Thiel helped build PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, co-founded Palantir, backed some of Silicon Valley’s most ambitious companies, and became an influential force in American politics. Yet his significance lies not only in money, technology, or power. Behind his career is a distinctive way of thinking about competition, authority, and the future. Following Thiel from his student years at Stanford through PayPal, Facebook, Palantir, ...

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. “I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it’s also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of...

Artificial intelligence can write, advise, predict, summarize, imitate, optimize—and speak with astonishing confidence. Then Socrates arrives. Instead of asking what AI can do, he asks what intelligence is for. Instead of admiring productivity, he asks what the productive life is supposed to produce. And instead of accepting recommendations, predictions, therapy prompts, dating advice, political analysis, artistic shortcuts, and promises of immortality, he keeps asking the question modern life finds increasingly inconvenient: Why? Socrates vs. Artificial Intelligence is a fast, witty ...

What if science explained everything about the brain—except the one thing that matters most? A brain can be scanned, mapped, stimulated, modeled, and measured. Neurons fire, information moves, memories form, words are spoken, and behavior unfolds according to physical processes. Yet one question remains stubbornly unresolved: why does any of it feel like something from the inside? In Chalmers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Mind, Matter, and the Mystery of Experience, Clayton Louis Turnage explores one of the most important philosophical challenges of the modern age. David Chalmers...

What if the most powerful AI in history met a retired bus driver with a twenty-sided die — and lost? OMNIVIEW predicts everything. Seven billion lives, modeled with 99.97% accuracy. Markets, decisions, futures — all of it mapped, charted, certain. Until Jerry Kowalski. Jerry is a sixty-three-year-old widower who, after losing his wife to cancer, has made every decision — what to eat, where to go, whether to answer the door — by rolling a purple plastic die. And OMNIVIEW cannot predict a single thing he does. Not one. When data scientist Maya Chen finds him, she discovers something ...