DEDICATION To Marvin Minsky CONTENTS DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE: THE 2015 EDGE QUESTION MURRAY SHANAHAN Consciousness in Human-Level AI STEVEN PINKER Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating MARTIN REES Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future STEVE OMOHUNDRO A Turning Point in Artificial Intelligence DIMITAR D. SASSELOV AI Is I FRANK TIPLER If You Can’t Beat ’em, Join ’em MARIO LIVIO Intelligent Machines on Earth and Beyond ANTONY GARRETT LISI I, for One, Welcome Our Machine Overlords JOHN MARKOFF Our Masters, Slaves, or Partners? PAUL DAVIES Designed Intelligence KEVIN P. HAND The Superintelligent Loner JOHN C. MATHER It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride DAVID CHRISTIAN Is Anyone in Charge of This Thing? TIMO HANNAY Witness to the Universe MAX TEGMARK Let’s Get Prepared! TOMASO POGGIO “Turing+” Questions PAMELA MCCORDUCK An Epochal Human Event MARCELO GLEISER Welcome to Your Transhuman Self SEAN CARROLL We Are All Machines That Think NICHOLAS G. CARR The Control Crisis JON KLEINBERG & SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN We Built Them, but We Don’t Understand Them JAAN TALLINN We Need to Do Our Homework GEORGE CHURCH What Do You Care What Other Machines Think? ARNOLD TREHUB Machines Cannot Think ROY BAUMEISTER No “I” and No Capacity for Malice KEITH DEVLIN Leveraging Human Intelligence EMANUEL DERMAN A Machine Is a “Matter” Thing FREEMAN DYSON I Could Be Wrong DAVID GELERNTER Why Can’t “Being” or “Happiness” Be Computed? LEO M. CHALUPA No Machine Thinks About the Eternal Questions DANIEL C. DENNETT The Singularity—an Urban Legend? W. TECUMSEH FITCH Nano-Intentionality IRENE PEPPERBERG A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind NICHOLAS HUMPHREY The Colossus Is a BFG ROLF DOBELLI Self-Aware AI? Not in 1,000 Years! CESAR HIDALGO Machines Don’t Think, but Neither Do People JAMES J. O’DONNELL Tangled Up in the Question RODNEY A. BROOKS Mistaking Performance for Competence TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI AI Will Make You Smarter SETH LLOYD Shallow Learning CARLO ROVELLI Natural Creatures of a Natural World FRANK WILCZEK Three Observations on Artificial Intelligence JOHN NAUGHTON When I Say “Bruno Latour,” I Don’t Mean “Banana Till” NICK BOSTROM It’s Still Early Days DONALD D. HOFFMAN Evolving AI ROGER SCHANK Machines That Think Are in the Movies JUAN ENRIQUEZ Head Transplants? ESTHER DYSON AI/AL TOM GRIFFITHS Brains and Other Thinking Machines MARK PAGEL They’ll Do More Good Than Harm ROBERT PROVINE Keeping Them on a Leash SUSAN BLACKMORE The Next Replicator TIM O’REILLY What If We’re the Microbiome of the Silicon AI? ANDY CLARK You Are What You Eat MOSHE HOFFMAN AI’s System of Rights and Government BRIAN KNUTSON The Robot with a Hidden Agenda WILLIAM POUNDSTONE Can Submarines Swim? GREGORY BENFORD Fear Not the AI LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS What, Me Worry? PETER NORVIG Design Machines to Deal with the World’s Complexity JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL The Rise of Storytelling Machines MICHAEL SHERMER Think Protopia, Not Utopia or Dystopia CHRIS DIBONA The Limits of Biological Intelligence JOSCHA BACH Every Society Gets the AI It Deserves QUENTIN HARDY The Beasts of AI Island CLIFFORD PICKOVER We Will Become One ERNST PÖPPEL An Extraterrestrial Observation on Human Hubris ROSS ANDERSON He Who Pays the AI Calls the Tune W. DANIEL HILLIS I Think, Therefore AI PAUL SAFFO What Will the Place of Humans Be? DYLAN EVANS The Great AI Swindle ANTHONY AGUIRRE The Odds on AI ERIC J. TOPOL A New Wisdom of the Body ROGER HIGHFIELD From RegularI to AI GORDON KANE We Need More Than Thought SCOTT ATRAN Are We Going in the Wrong Direction? STANISLAS DEHAENE Two Cognitive Functions Machines Still Lack MATT RIDLEY Among the Machines, Not Within the Machines STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN Another Kind of Diversity LUCA DE BIASE Narratives and Our Civilization MARGARET LEVI Human Responsibility D. A. WALLACH Amplifiers/Implementers of Human Choices RORY SUTHERLAND Make the Thing Impossible to Hate BRUCE STERLING Actress Machines KEVIN KELLY Call Them Artificial Aliens MARTIN SELIGMAN Do Machines Do? TIMOTHY TAYLOR Denkraumverlust GEORGE DYSON Analog, the Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name S. ABBAS RAZA The Values of Artificial Intelligence BRUCE PARKER Artificial Selection and Our Grandchildren NEIL GERSHENFELD Really Good Hacks DANIEL L. EVERETT The Airbus and the Eagle DOUGLAS COUPLAND Humanness JOSH BONGARD Manipulators and Manipulanda ZIYAD MARAR Are We Thinking More Like Machines? BRIAN ENO Just a New Fractal Detail in the Big Picture MARTI HEARST eGaia, a Distributed Technical-Social Mental System CHRIS ANDERSON The Hive Mind ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here RANDOLPH NESSE Will Computers Become Like Thinking, Talking Dogs? RICHARD E. NISBETT Thinking Machines and Ennui SAMUEL ARBESMAN Naches from Our Machines GERALD SMALLBERG No Shared Theory of Mind ELDAR SHAFIR Blind to the Core of Human Experience
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