{"id":195252,"date":"2024-08-26T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/stephen-wolfram-thinks-we-need-philosophers-working-on-big-questions-around-ai"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:54:55","slug":"stephen-wolfram-thinks-we-need-philosophers-working-on-big-questions-around-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/stephen-wolfram-thinks-we-need-philosophers-working-on-big-questions-around-ai","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ECXShTtO9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main life work, along with basic science, has been building our Wolfram language computational language for the purpose of having a way to express things computationally that\u2019s useful to both humans and computers,\u201d Wolfram told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p>As AI developers and others start to think more deeply about how computers and people intersect, Wolfram says it is becoming much more of a philosophical exercise, involving thinking in the pure sense about the implications this kind of technology may have on humanity. That kind of complex thinking is linked to classical philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is what do you think about, and that\u2019s a different kind of question, and it\u2019s a question that\u2019s found more in traditional philosophy than it is in the traditional STEM,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy main life work, along with basic science, has been building our Wolfram language computational language for the purpose of having a way to express things computationally that\u2019s useful to both humans and computers,\u201d Wolfram told TechCrunch. As AI developers and others start to think more deeply about how computers and people intersect, Wolfram says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}