Skip to content
Public Seminar
Public Seminar
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Sections
    • The Arts
    • Economy
    • Education
    • Habitats
    • History
    • Migration
    • Philosophy
    • Politics
    • Race
    • Sex & Gender
    • Science & Technology
  • Podcasts
    • Unsettled
    • The Ostriches
    • Multi-Verse
    • Past Present
    • Exiles on 12th Street
    • Why Now?
    • Unproductive Labor
  • About
    • About
    • Submissions
    • Our Team
    • Donate
    • Issues Archive
  • Symposia
    • Rethinking Orozco
    • The Anti-Immigrant Election
    • The Mysteries of Taylor Swift
    • Rats: A Cautionary Tail
    • Teaching While Black
    • Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts
    • Constitutional Politics
    • Symposium on Love
    • The Left and the Crisis of Democracy

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Readers Aren’t Flocking to Chatbot Novels Just Yet

Plus some thoughts on artistic possibilities of A.I. writing

May 24, 2023 • by Lincoln Michel
Let’s assume a future chatbot can live up to the predictions and, say, scan every Stephen King book and then produce a new Stephen King-ish novel. Who does that serve, exactly?...

Read More
Readers Aren’t Flocking to Chatbot Novels Just Yet
Artificial Intelligence

Does It Matter If Artificially Intelligent Machines Think Like Humans?

What a Victorian author can teach us about the conflict at Google over sentient AI

August 19, 2022 • by Anna Neill
Machine cognition, like that of human and nonhuman animals, may or may not become conscious cognition. That remains to be seen. But what matters is how we already harness it and who profits....

Read More
Does It Matter If Artificially Intelligent Machines Think Like Humans?
Artificial Intelligence

AI Spy With My Little Eye: Facial Recognition

Cautioning the increased use of AI in law enforcement

March 23, 2022 • by Patrick K. Lin
The diversity of faces used to train an algorithm can influence the kinds of photos and faces that an algorithm is most adept at examining. If the set of face images is skewed towards a certain race, the algorithm may be better at identifying members of that group as compared ...
Read More
AI Spy With My Little Eye: Facial Recognition
Subscribe

Join our global intellectual commons

Free to subscribe. No spam. Delivered by Substack.

Most Popular
1
Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair
June 10, 2025 by Andrew Joseph Pegoda
Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair
2
Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter
March 25, 2024 by Justin Joque
Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter
3
Simulacra of Democracy
June 16, 2026 by Elzbieta Matynia
Simulacra of Democracy
4
Judging Presidents
June 18, 2026 by Larry Schwartz
Judging Presidents
5
When the Penis Is Property
June 11, 2020 by Kevin Mumford
When the Penis Is Property
The Latest
Theory & Practice
The Cultural Marxism Bogeyman
July 27, 2026 by Austin Tannenbaum and A. J. A. Woods
The Cultural Marxism Bogeyman
Literature
The New Millennium
July 21, 2026 by Nancy K. Miller
The New Millennium
Reviews
An Embarrassment of Exactness in Ben Lerner’s Transcription
July 20, 2026 by Elena Rotzokou
An Embarrassment of Exactness in Ben Lerner’s Transcription
Art & Design
Thinking Technology: New Humans at the New Museum
July 15, 2026 by Yazan Ashqar
Thinking Technology: New Humans at the New Museum
Literature
The Queer Tendency of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
July 14, 2026 by Lana Lin and Katie Pruden
The Queer Tendency of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam

The New School

Public Seminar is a journal of ideas and debate published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. Our free, nonprofit publication is made possible by the support of The New School and the generosity of our readers.

Newsletter

Free to subscribe. No spam.
Delivered by Substack.

Connect With Us

Instagram
Bluesky
Facebook
Twitter

Copyright © 2014–2026 The Editorial Board of Public Seminar, All Rights Reserved.