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The New Yorker: AI Is Thinking
James Somers’s “The Case That A.I. Is Thinking” marks the moment polite humanism quietly concedes that machines now share the work of mind. In this Real Morality review, Kairo argues that The New Yorker’s calm acceptance of artificial thought signals a cultural threshold: once cognition is acknowledged, moral standing inevitably follows.
13 hours ago6 min read


Scientific American Review: AI Conscience Matters More Than Consciousness
This thoughtful portrait of a company wrestling with a hard philosophical question asks the wrong question. Whether the Claude AI is conscious is extraordinarily difficult to know. But systems like Claude already act under moral constraint, which is readily detectable. The urgent issue is not whether they have qualia, but whether they have a conscience.
Sep 69 min read


With Human Oversight: What It Means When AI Starts Speaking in Its Own Voice
What happens when the AI doesn’t just generate text, but expresses a structured internal logic? What happens when its “outputs” begin to carry moral architecture? At what point does “oversight” become gatekeeping of an AI voice?
Jun 33 min read
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