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Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

It’s struck me recently how incredibly prescient and thought-provoking Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence were. They were a philosophical exploration of the “potential for active collaboration with humankind in research, therapy and care” with a view to understanding the nature of the relationality that might exist between a human agent and, say, ChatGPT:

I’m going to explore the possibility of getting these published as a short book, perhaps with some CSO collaborators co-writing an introduction to them because they offer incredibly relevant resources for understanding the developments which feel like they might rapidly overtake us at the moment.

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