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Mar 28, 2025

LaMBDA and the Lobster

If we accept invertebrates as sentient, why not AI?

LaMBDA and the Lobster

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May 12

The Lovelace Test Revisited

Why one of AI’s most demanding tests may already have been passed

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Jan 31

Why Most AI Predictions Are Wrong

Pundits ignore these five established laws of technology

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Brain Labs

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Nov 21, 2025

Five Lies We Tell Ourselves About Technology

How to break free of the technological myths that bind us

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Brain Labs

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Oct 7, 2025

Making Philosophical Sense of AI

Why our conversations about AI feel shallow and confused

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Sep 9, 2025

Can AI Fear the Future?

AI cannot be conscious until it experiences time

Can AI Fear the Future?

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Jul 22, 2025

AI Breaks the Chinese Room

LLMs render Searle’s famous thought experiment obsolete

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Brain Labs

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Jun 19, 2025

AI is Just a Technology— but Technologies Demand Respect

Ignoring their power has always ended badly

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Jan 19, 2025

Aristotle and the limits of AI

Can AI ever rise beyond mere cleverness?

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Nov 17, 2024

The simple human things that AIs can never do

We will not always be superior to AIs, but we will always be different

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Paul Siemers, PhD

Paul Siemers, PhD

I am passionate about revealing how technology really works. I have 30+ years experience in technology strategy, and a PhD in Philosophy of Technology.

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