![]() ![]() (Unfortunately, Bakewell’s defense fails to meet the moment.)Įric Schmidt, who co-wrote a book on AI with Henry Kissinger, told my colleague Charlie Warzel last month that “the reason we’re marching toward this technological revolution is it is a material improvement in human intelligence.” But, as Warzel points out, we don’t actually know how generative AI will change human lives. ![]() As these advancements threaten to upend the primacy of “the faculties of the independent mind, the very core of intellectual personhood,” Foer writes, humanism could use a champion. But Bakewell’s book has landed at a curious time, Franklin Foer writes: Her way of thinking is imperiled by a changing culture-especially recent developments in artificial intelligence. In her new book, Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell aims to revitalize the philosophy’s emphasis on morality, reason, and optimism. Humanism is a tradition that prizes, above all, the irreplaceable experience of being a person. ![]()
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