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Audio Essay: Artificial Intelligence and the Noosphere

Seeing the age of AI in cosmic perspective can help us navigate it
Robert Wright
Jul 20, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence and the Noosphere

Robert Wright
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June 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Noosphere

We must enlarge our approach to encompass the formation, taking place before our eyes… outside and above the biosphere, of an added planetary layer, an envelope of thinking substance, to which, for the sake of convenience and symmetry, I have given the name of the Noosphere.

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