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		<title>why the humanities could never be automated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, we want to answer questions to accomplish practical outcomes. For example, we want to know whether a vaccine works so that we can decide whether to use it. Or we may seek basic insights about viruses so that we can develop vaccines in the first place. Sometimes, we want to know things because we [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35823">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the worlds we can lose when intelligence becomes artificial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 13:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1958, Hannah Arendt could see where were were headed: This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35714">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the papal encyclical on AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnifica humanitas (&#8220;Magnificent Humanity&#8221;) is Pope Leo XIX&#8217;s XIV&#8217;s first encylical, subtitled &#8220;On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.&#8221; Near the beginning, Leo makes a plea for &#8220;a shared discernment process.&#8221; He warns against worrying only about &#8220;contingencies&#8221; and &#8220;a succession of emergencies.&#8221; It is urgent to think ahout AI more [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35700">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>attitudes about AI by age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg writes that college students are jeering at tech oligarchs who give commencement speeches about the benefits of AI. A Wall Street Journal article begins, &#8220;The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans&#8217; negative feelings about it&#8212;as former Google Chief Executive&#160;Eric Schmidt&#160;saw on Friday&#8221; when [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35664">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>people as clusters of attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention is endangered. It is what Silicon Valley has learned to capture and commoditize. It is what LLMs pretend to offer by speaking in the first-person singular, often in a sycophantic voice. It is what my iPhone takes from me. It is what Donald Trump constantly demands. To understand why our attention should be valuable [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35640">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>AI as Satanic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.&#160;And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it&#8221; (Job [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35354">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>AI as the road to socialism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just under 40% of occupations jobs in the USA may be replaced by AI if it proves to be as powerful as some think it will be.* As a thought-experiment (not as a prediction), imagine that 40% of current workers, or about 60 million Americans, are no longer employed because AI does their former work. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35297">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>can AI solve “wicked problems”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading predictions that artificial intelligence will wipe out swaths of jobs&#8211;see Josh Tyrangiel in The Atlantic or Jan Tegze. Meanwhile, this week, I&#8217;m teaching Rittel &#38; Webber (1973), the classic article that coined the phrase &#8220;wicked problems.&#8221; I started to wonder whether AI can ever resolve wicked problems. If not, the best way [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35246">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Arendt in Palo Alto</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent week at Stanford, I reread selections from Hannah Arendt&#8217;s On Revolution (ON) and The Human Condition (HC) to prepare for upcoming seminar sessions. My somewhat grim thoughts were evidently informed by the national news. I share them here without casting aspersions on my gracious Stanford hosts, who bear no responsibility for what [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33809">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Victorians warn us about AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fictional dialogue entitled Impressions of Theophrastus Such (first edition, 1879), George Eliot&#8217;s first-person narrator envisions the development of machines that can think, affect the physical world, and reproduce themselves. Humans suffer as a result, devolving into passivity and ultimately becoming extinct: Under such uncomfortable circumstances our race will have diminished with the diminishing [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33398">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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