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An introduction to the philosophical questions raised by artificial intelligence. We begin with classic readings in the philosophy of mind laying out a computational approach to intelligence before turning to the connectionist debates of the 80s. We then consider the debate in light of recent progress in artificial intelligence, focusing on large language models' generalization capabilities. Finally, we turn to social and political issues raised by modern AI systems: what would it take to align such systems, and how can their power be justly wielded?