Stay updated with breaking news from Herbert Simon. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Some people contend artificial intelligence can improve workplace safety, offer accessibility for people with disabilities, and make everyday life more convenient and enjoyable; others contend artificial intelligence poses dangerous privacy risks, repeats and exacerbates racism, and harms the standard of living for many people.
This article aims to show that there is an alternative way to explain human action with respect to the bottlenecks of the psychology of decision making. The empirical study of human behaviour from mid-20th century to date has mainly developed by looking at a normative model of decision making. In particular Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) decision making, which stems from the subjective expected utility theory of Savage (1954) that itself extended the analysis by Von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944). On this view, the cognitive psychology of decision making precisely reflects the conceptual st...
A podcast interview (posted 2023-06-29) with noted AI researcher Douglas Hofstadter discusses his career and current views on AI (via Edward Kmett). …
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s problem is that he could do the job of president, but first he must get elected. And he’s not well-suited to do that in this
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s problem is that he could do the job of president, but first he must get elected. And he’s not well-suited to do that in this