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On Brian Cantwell Smith and the Promise of AI

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Today I had the bittersweet pleasure of participating in a symposium honoring the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, a good friend whom I’d known for over 30 years.

Today I had the bittersweet pleasure of participating in a symposium honoring the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, a good friend whom I’d known for over 30 years. Before he died last year, Brian held an endowed chair at the University of Toronto: the Reid Hoffman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and the Human. The title is very apt—Brian’s work was very much about what it means to be human, and what that in turn means for AI. At the symposium, I was asked participate on a panel on AI and the Human, part of which included a 15-minute reflection on how my interests and expertise…

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