W. Daniel Hillis: The First Machine Intelligences
Hybrid superintelligences such as nation states and corporations have their own emergent goals and their actions are not always aligned to the interests of the people who created them.
Venki Ramakrishnan: Will Computers Become Our Overlords? Our fears about AI reflect the belief that our intelligence is what makes us special.
Alex “Sandy” Pentland: The Human Strategy How can we make a good human-artificial ecosystem, something that’s not a machine
society but a cyberculture in which we can all live as humans—a culture with a human feel to it?
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Making the Invisible Visible: Art Meets AI
Many contemporary artists are articulating various doubts about the promises of AI and reminding us not to associate the term “artificial intelligence” solely with positive outcomes.
Alison Gopnik: AIs versus Four-Year-Olds Looking at what children do may give programmers useful hints about directions for computer learning.
Peter Galison: Algorists Dream of Objectivity By now, the legal, ethical, formal, and economic dimensions of algorithms are all quasi- infinite.
George M. Church: The Rights of Machines Probably we should be less concerned about us-versus-them and more concerned about the rights of all sentients in the face of an emerging unprecedented diversity of minds.
Caroline A. Jones: The Artistic Use of Cybernetic Beings The work of cybernetically inclined artists concerns the emergent behaviors of life that elude AI in its current condition.
Stephen Wolfram: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization
The most dramatic discontinuity will surely be when we achieve effective human immortality. Whether this will be achieved biologically or digitally isn’t clear, but inevitably it will be achieved.
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