Several months ago, I argued that artificial intelligence raises ethical questions. The assumption that technological progress automatically produces human progress has appeared repeatedly throughout modern history. It was present in parts of the Enlightenment, resurfaced in certain strands of neoclassical economics, and continues to shape contemporary discussions surrounding artificial intelligence. Yet ethics may represent only part of the challenge posed by AI. A second an

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A Journey of Thought Beginning in a Bookstore It was a day in 1993. I was walking from Taksim Square towards Gümüşsuyu. At the top of the...