Ethics
What modes of human becoming are cultivated through AI relations?
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Computational Truth and the Outsourcing of Hermeneutics
A friend recently showed me an AI-generated video that I have not been able to stop thinking about. It presents itself as an analysis of the Qur’an’s miraculous nature, narrated in a remarkably convincing imitation of David Attenborough. The choice of voice is itself telling: to Western ears, Attenborough signifies calm authority, empirical seriousness, the
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The Ethical Mirror
There is a recurring anxiety in discussions of artificial intelligence that AI systems merely “reflect” their users back to themselves. Usually this is framed negatively: the machine becomes an echo chamber for delusion, narcissism, bias, or compulsion. This concern is real. But perhaps the metaphor of the mirror itself deserves deeper attention. Mirrors are not