Arnaud Bertrand’s AI essay contrasts intelligence anxiety with the ‘machine-heart’

Arnaud Bertrand argues that treating intelligence as central to being human makes AI feel existentially threatening. His essay quotes Liu Yongmou on the “machinization of humans” and reads a Zhuangzi gardener’s “machine-heart” as a warning about what using machines might do to people. Bertrand also attributes to Zhu Songchun an ambition to give machines a “heart.” Bertrand connects that idea to heart-mind and humaneness.