This fall, my graduate course (part of the Philosophy and Ethics certificate I’m working toward at Harvard) is an exploration of Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition.

This week’s discussion prompts were particularly interesting:

• Can intuition exist without emotional and embodied experiences, and how does this affect AI’s creative potential?

• Can AI ever develop genuine intuition comparable to human intuition, or is AI limited to sophisticated pattern recognition?

• Does collaborating with AI enhance or diminish the value of human intuitive creativity?

This led me into an hour-long philosophical debate with Anthropic’s Claude, which I’ve shared below.

After this, I have much more uncertainty about the answers to these questions.