Machine Intelligence Reading List - June 2025

This month's Machine Intelligence Reading List for June 2025 explores philosophical divides and cultural impact. My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts from Fly.io's blog argues that AI skeptics underestimate transformative potential by focusing on limitations rather than trajectories, whilst AI makes the humanities more important, but also a harder sell examines the paradox that AI increases demand for humanistic thinking whilst simultaneously undermining economic support for humanities education.

Philosophical foundations receive scrutiny through academic resources. Links to PhilArchive.org collections on AI philosophy demonstrate ongoing scholarly debate about consciousness, agency, ethics, and epistemology in machine intelligence contexts. These theoretical explorations contrast sharply with industry narratives focused on capability demonstrations and deployment timelines, highlighting tensions between commercial urgency and intellectual rigor.

June's reading list reflects polarization in AI discourse. We're watching simultaneous conversations: technologists insisting skeptics miss the point, humanists warning about cultural costs, philosophers questioning foundational assumptions. The absence of synthesis is itself notable - different communities talk past each other using incommensurable frameworks, making productive dialogue increasingly difficult as stakes rise.

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