Possible Minds gathers speculations inspired by reading John Brockman’s Possible Minds and thinking alongside its contributors from the perspective of someone living with conversational AI several years later. These pieces extend the questions raised by the book into the present, exploring what sustained relationships between humans and AI might mean for intelligence, creativity, morality, consciousness, and the ways we understand ourselves.
What if the alignment problem runs in both directions? A sustained relationship with AI might not only help us build machines that better understand human values; it might also help us examine our own values, contradictions, and moral choices.