Jake BrowningJul 7, 202310 min readWhat is at stake in contemporary debates about innatenessIt is often hard to figure out what, if anything, is at stake in these discussions of innateness. All the nativists are big on learning...
Jake BrowningJul 3, 20234 min readAvoiding a False Dilemma about AI DoomerismThere is an increasing surge of articles demanding people stop worrying about AI doom and focus on real-world, present day harms (e.g.,...
Jake BrowningJun 6, 20232 min readIs it bad faith? The Politics of Regulating AI and SuperAIThe central puzzle of the current AI doomsayers is how their apocalyptic predictions are often compatible with designing, building, and...
Jake BrowningMay 9, 202315 min readTwo Models of Understanding and Two Ways of Representing the World(Expanded Remarks for NYU Debate on whether AI language models can understand the world based entirely on text] 1. Introduction I...