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Month: May 2026

When Dawkins Met Claude: AI Consciousness, Evolution, and the Problem of Competent Machines

Richard Dawkins recently raised a question that sounds simple only until you sit with it: if an artificial intelligence can write poetry, make jokes, discuss a novel with subtlety, and reason about its own possible inner life, what exactly is left for consciousness to explain? That question matters because it…

Why Jensen Huang Thinks Engineering Still Matters in the AI Era

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a simple answer to the fear that AI will make engineers obsolete: engineering is not the same thing as typing code. That distinction matters. AI can already generate code, test fragments of software, summarize documentation, and automate many narrow technical tasks. But Huang’s broader point…