The Physiology of Agency in the Age of AI (opens in new tab)

There is a question lurking beneath the current wave of enthusiasm about artificial intelligence that I think deserves more serious attention than it has received. It is not the familiar worry about job displacement or misinformation or even the alignment problem. It is a more intimate question: What happens to our bodies when the feeling of being the author of our own actions begins to erode? I have been exploring this question in correspondence with a European reader who follows MindBlog, a...