Erik J. Larson is the author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (Harvard University Press, 2021) and writes about AI, philosophy, and culture. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, UnHerd, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He is currently completing a second, co-authored book, Augmented Human Intelligence: Empowering Humans in an Age of AI, for MIT Press. Larson writes the Substack Colligo.
Erik J. Larson
Articles
The Return of the Luddites
Erik J. Larson considers “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want” by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.
Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths
Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress.
What Is Literature For?: A Symposium on Angus Fletcher’s “Wonderworks”
Keith P. Mankin, Ed Simon, and Erik J. Larson each review Angus Fletcher’s “Wonderworks,” and Fletcher responds.
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