The debate has fixated on jobs. The more consequential question is what happens to thinking itself.
A curated database of scholarly articles, essays, and empirical research on the psychological and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. We track the evidence so you don't have to.
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New research and reporting on how artificial intelligence is reshaping thought, feeling, and human connection.
A two-day academic workshop at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands) on how AI systems that mediate whose testimony counts as credible affect epistemic justice, covering algorithmic bias, testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, and epistemic trust, with applications in medicine, education, law, and policy.
Read original article →A three-day summit in San Francisco (March 12-14, 2027) bringing together AI researchers, philosophers, and welfare advocates to address ethics, consciousness, and governance questions around both animal and potentially sentient artificial minds.
Read original article →A conference at the University of Warwick examining relationality and reflexivity in human-AI interaction, including questions of trust, agency, and reciprocity as AI systems become embedded in human relationships and everyday practices.
Read original article →News, research, and events examining AI's relationship to loneliness and human connection.
Next up: Biological Naturalism about Consciousness•November 5, 2026
The conversation about AI is dominated by economic speculation and productivity metrics. Quiet the Machine is an editorial space dedicated to the remaining, harder questions: what happens to our attention, our memory, and our capacity for unassisted judgment.
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