Artificial intelligence - Rationale Magazine

12 Sep

We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests

12/09/2025
By David Comerford
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Back in the 2000s, the American pharmaceutical firm Wyeth was sued by thousands of women who had developed breast cancer after t...

03 Sep

Science & Health

AI slop: An unwelcome form of online content

03/09/2025
By Adam Nemeroff
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You’ve probably encountered images in your social media feeds that look like a cross between photographs and computer-generated graphic...

20 Aug

Science & Health

It’s fantasy to think AI can be free from bias and ideology

In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the ...

10 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Are our thoughts ‘real’?

10/03/2025
By Sam Baron
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You can doubt just about anything. But there’s one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now. This idea came to...

03 Feb

Philosophy & Psychology

How psychologists kick-started AI by studying the human mind

05/02/2025
By Armita Zarnegar
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Many people think of psychology as being primarily about mental health, but its story goes far beyond that. As the science of the mind,...

23 Oct

Science & Health

What will AI really mean for science?

23/10/2024
By Ehsan Nabavi
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Phy...

11 Jul

Science & Health

Will AI help or hinder trust in science?

13/07/2024
By Jon Whittle
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In the past year, generative artificial intelligence tools — such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and OpenAI’s video generation tool ...

30 Sep

Science & Health

Does AI have a right to free speech?

The world has witnessed breathtaking advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT being one of the best known exam...

13 Sep

Letters to the Editor

The limits of liberty

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09 Aug

Philosophy & Psychology

What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence

11/07/2024
By Jack Dikian
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René Descartes' interests extended to diverse subjects, and one of the most striking subjects he studied was machine thinking. That he ...

05 Jun

Science & Health

AI and the problems of personification

05/06/2023
By David James
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In literary criticism, a commonly used term is ‘personification’, which describes when a writer invests natural phenomena with human qu...

25 May

Science & Health

The impact and implications of large language models

25/05/2023
By James Fodor
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Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Bard have attracted a great deal of publicity in recent months due to their imp...

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