AI's Without Minds
by Ellen Burns, PhDin 📖 Philosophy
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AI's Without Minds
About the Substack
A philosopher of mind digging into and exposing mainstream AI-mind claims.
Free Subscription Benefits
- The philosophical grounding behind the AI-mind debate (history, concepts, context) plus, a free tool to evaluate any AI-consciousness claim yourself
Paid Subcription Benefits
- My hour-long course: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Mind
- My full archive: rigorous arguments on AI-mind claims, and a monthly round-up of the AI-consciousness literature, with real analysis, not summa
- Video essays — my raw, unpolished thinking before it's a fully-formed arguments
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- $25 a month
- $120 a year
About Ellen Burns, PhD
Your out-of-house philosopher of mind. Warning: my views on AI consciousness aren't shackled to the hyper-scalers' agendas
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