Artificial intelligence
fromThe Atlantic
1 day agoHow AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield
Autonomous weapons are increasingly used in warfare, raising concerns about control, values, and the relationship between technology companies and the military.
For most of Western history, the soul was the master key to human nature, the invisible essence that thinkers from Plato to Descartes believed set us apart from animals, grounded morality, and housed the mind itself. Psychology, in its earliest form, was literally the "study of the soul." Mental illness was treated as a disturbance of this fragile inner essence. Even as modern science began to peel the mind away from metaphysics, the soul proved stubborn, clinging to public imagination