{"title":"Shannon Vallor's Wise Polemic against AI Enthusiasm","authors":"Erik Parens","doi":"10.1002/hast.70019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>In</i> The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, <i>Shannon Vallor excavates the moral significance of the difference between experiences such as cognition, empathy, and love that emerge in embodied beings like us, and simulacra of those experiences as produced by bodiless systems like generative AIs. She argues, helpfully and powerfully, that there is no greater existential threat to humanity than failing to remember and preserve that difference</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":55073,"journal":{"name":"Hastings Center Report","volume":"55 5","pages":"43-45"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hastings Center Report","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.70019","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, Shannon Vallor excavates the moral significance of the difference between experiences such as cognition, empathy, and love that emerge in embodied beings like us, and simulacra of those experiences as produced by bodiless systems like generative AIs. She argues, helpfully and powerfully, that there is no greater existential threat to humanity than failing to remember and preserve that difference.
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The Hastings Center Report explores ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences. Six issues per year offer articles, essays, case studies of bioethical problems, columns on law and policy, caregivers’ stories, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews. Authors come from an assortment of professions and academic disciplines and express a range of perspectives and political opinions. The Report’s readership includes physicians, nurses, scholars, administrators, social workers, health lawyers, and others.