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The spine of the project. Each question is a research collection in its own right.
Artificial intelligence has revived humanity's oldest questions. Each one below gathers classical voices, primary sources, comparative analysis, and a modern-AI lens into a single collection.
Question 1
What is Intelligence?
The question artificial intelligence forces us to ask first.
Question 2
What is Wisdom?
If a machine can be brilliant, can it be wise?
Question 3
Can Virtue Be Taught?
Meno's question, asked again of a machine we are trying to align.
Question 4
What is Language?
Machines now use words fluently. Do they mean anything by them?
Question 5
What is Consciousness?
The question we least know how to answer, asked of minds we are now building.
Question 6
What Makes a Good Ruler?
An old question about power, now aimed at systems that may exceed us.
Question 7
What is Justice?
From Plato's Republic to the question of who an algorithm serves.
Question 8
What is Creativity?
When a machine paints and composes, what is left of the creative act?
Question 9
What is Friendship?
People are befriending chatbots. Aristotle would have questions.
Question 10
What is the Self?
The “I” that uses these tools — and the one we keep reading into them.