On Revisiting Cybersyn with Artificial Intelligence

Thanks to Raphael Arar’s suggestion, I recently read Luke Munn and Liam Magee’s “Other Worlds: Using AI to Revisit Cybersyn and Rethink Economic Futures” paper (see it here). Their approach is certainly innovative and interesting. However, I couldn’t help but think of two alternative paths that could be derived from their paper. On the one […]

Thinking about Making (Thinking Machines)

Last week I attended the Semiotic Machines conference here in Berlin. At the opening panel on the first day, the philosopher Beatrice Fazi said something that intrigued me and has kept me thinking ever since. She said – I’m paraphrasing from memory here – that in order to address the challenges that AI systems pose […]