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Bloomsbury Academic is launching a new book series, *Intelligence: AI and Humanity*, with Jeff Jarvis as series editor. The non‑technical collection will examine AI’s cultural, ethical, and societal implications rather than its engineering. The inaugural titles feature Dr. Rumman Chowdhury on the nature of intelligence, Dr. Charlton McIlwain on AI’s potential to redress racial tech inequities, and Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum warning of a looming "Textpocalypse." Bloomsbury plans to publish three to five titles annually and invites proposals from a broad range of scholars.
A new paper by Yann LeCun and co‑authors outlines a philosophy that AI should mirror human specialization rather than pursue a monolithic artificial general intelligence. The authors argue that finite computational resources are best allocated to mastering a limited set...
