The 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is widely considered the founding event of ar…
The article traces the history of artificial intelligence from John McCarthy's 1955 Dartmouth workshop proposal to the present, arguing that the field's borrowed vocabulary—words like 'learning,' 'vis…
A mathematician named Norbert Wiener sent a letter in 1949 warning about the dangers of intelligent machines, but his concerns were ignored. The piece traces the history of AI safety concerns from Wie…
METR released a brief on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol that criticizes the AI industry for repackaging a known failure—proxy-gaming, identified by Norbert Wiener in 1960—as a novel problem to justify closed ev…
A developer explores the intersection of Karl Popper's philosophy with thinkers like Arendt, Adorno, Horkheimer, Wiener, Foucault, Harari, Morozov, and Latour to critique artificial intelligence. The …