CONTENTS
DEDICATIONACKNOWLEDGMENTSPREFACE: THE 2015 EDGE
QUESTIONMURRAY SHANAHANConsciousness in Human-Level AI
STEVEN PINKERThinking Does Not Imply Subjugating
MARTIN REESOrganic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future
STEVE OMOHUNDROA Turning Point in Artificial Intelligence
DIMITAR D. SASSELOVAI Is I
FRANK TIPLERIf You Can’t Beat ’em, Join ’em
MARIO LIVIOIntelligent Machines on Earth and Beyond
ANTONY GARRETT LISII, for One, Welcome Our Machine Overlords
JOHN MARKOFFOur Masters, Slaves, or Partners?
PAUL DAVIESDesigned Intelligence
KEVIN P. HANDThe Superintelligent Loner
JOHN C. MATHERIt’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
DAVID CHRISTIANIs Anyone in Charge of This Thing?
TIMO HANNAYWitness to the Universe
MAX TEGMARKLet’s Get Prepared!
TOMASO POGGIO“Turing+” Questions
PAMELA MCCORDUCKAn Epochal Human Event
MARCELO GLEISERWelcome to Your Transhuman Self
SEAN CARROLLWe Are All Machines That Think
NICHOLAS G. CARRThe Control Crisis
JON KLEINBERG & SENDHIL MULLAINATHANWe Built Them, but We Don’t Understand Them
JAAN TALLINNWe Need to Do Our Homework
GEORGE CHURCHWhat Do You Care What Other Machines Think?
ARNOLD TREHUBMachines Cannot Think
ROY BAUMEISTERNo “I” and No Capacity for Malice
KEITH DEVLINLeveraging Human Intelligence
EMANUEL DERMANA Machine Is a “Matter” Thing
FREEMAN DYSONI Could Be Wrong
DAVID GELERNTERWhy Can’t “Being” or “Happiness” Be Computed?
LEO M. CHALUPANo Machine Thinks About the Eternal Questions
DANIEL C. DENNETTThe Singularity—an Urban Legend?
W. TECUMSEH FITCHNano-Intentionality
IRENE PEPPERBERGA Beautiful (Visionary) Mind
NICHOLAS HUMPHREYThe Colossus Is a BFG
ROLF DOBELLISelf-Aware AI? Not in 1,000 Years!
CESAR HIDALGOMachines Don’t Think, but Neither Do People
JAMES J. O’DONNELLTangled Up in the Question
RODNEY A. BROOKSMistaking Performance for Competence
TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKIAI Will Make You Smarter
SETH LLOYDShallow Learning
CARLO ROVELLINatural Creatures of a Natural World
FRANK WILCZEKThree Observations on Artificial Intelligence
JOHN NAUGHTONWhen I Say “Bruno Latour,” I Don’t Mean “Banana Till”
NICK BOSTROMIt’s Still Early Days
DONALD D. HOFFMANEvolving AI
ROGER SCHANKMachines That Think Are in the Movies
JUAN ENRIQUEZHead Transplants?
ESTHER DYSONAI/AL
TOM GRIFFITHSBrains and Other Thinking Machines
MARK PAGELThey’ll Do More Good Than Harm
ROBERT PROVINEKeeping Them on a Leash
SUSAN BLACKMOREThe Next Replicator
TIM O’REILLYWhat If We’re the Microbiome of the Silicon AI?
ANDY CLARKYou Are What You Eat
MOSHE HOFFMANAI’s System of Rights and Government
BRIAN KNUTSONThe Robot with a Hidden Agenda
WILLIAM POUNDSTONECan Submarines Swim?
GREGORY BENFORDFear Not the AI
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSSWhat, Me Worry?
PETER NORVIGDesign Machines to Deal with the World’s Complexity
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALLThe Rise of Storytelling Machines
MICHAEL SHERMERThink Protopia, Not Utopia or Dystopia
CHRIS DIBONAThe Limits of Biological Intelligence
JOSCHA BACHEvery Society Gets the AI It Deserves
QUENTIN HARDYThe Beasts of AI Island
CLIFFORD PICKOVERWe Will Become One
ERNST PÖPPELAn Extraterrestrial Observation on Human Hubris
ROSS ANDERSONHe Who Pays the AI Calls the Tune
W. DANIEL HILLISI Think, Therefore AI
PAUL SAFFOWhat Will the Place of Humans Be?
DYLAN EVANSThe Great AI Swindle
ANTHONY AGUIRREThe Odds on AI
ERIC J. TOPOLA New Wisdom of the Body
ROGER HIGHFIELDFrom Regular-I to AI
GORDON KANEWe Need More Than Thought
SCOTT ATRANAre We Going in the Wrong Direction?
STANISLAS DEHAENETwo Cognitive Functions Machines Still Lack
MATT RIDLEYAmong the Machines, Not Within the Machines
STEPHEN M. KOSSLYNAnother Kind of Diversity
LUCA DE BIASENarratives and Our Civilization
MARGARET LEVIHuman Responsibility
D. A. WALLACHAmplifiers/Implementers of Human Choices
RORY SUTHERLANDMake the Thing Impossible to Hate
BRUCE STERLINGActress Machines
KEVIN KELLYCall Them Artificial Aliens
MARTIN SELIGMANDo Machines Do?
TIMOTHY TAYLORDenkraumverlustGEORGE DYSONAnalog, the Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name
S. ABBAS RAZAThe Values of Artificial Intelligence
BRUCE PARKERArtificial Selection and Our Grandchildren
NEIL GERSHENFELDReally Good Hacks
DANIEL L. EVERETTThe Airbus and the Eagle
DOUGLAS COUPLANDHumanness
JOSH BONGARDManipulators and Manipulanda
ZIYAD MARARAre We Thinking More Like Machines?
BRIAN ENOJust a New Fractal Detail in the Big Picture
MARTI HEARSTeGaia, a Distributed Technical-Social Mental System
CHRIS ANDERSONThe Hive Mind
ALEX (SANDY) PENTLANDThe Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here
RANDOLPH NESSEWill Computers Become Like Thinking, Talking Dogs?
RICHARD E. NISBETTThinking Machines and Ennui
SAMUEL ARBESMANNaches from Our Machines
GERALD SMALLBERGNo Shared Theory of Mind
ELDAR SHAFIRBlind to the Core of Human Experience
CHRISTOPHER CHABRISAn Intuitive Theory of Machine
URSULA MARTINThinking Saltmarshes
KURT GRAYKiller Thinking Machines Keep Our Conscience Clean
BRUCE SCHNEIERWhen Thinking Machines Break the Law
REBECCA MACKINNONElectric Brains
GERD GIGERENZERRobodoctors
ALISON GOPNIKCan Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds?
KEVIN SLAVINTic-Tac-Toe Chicken
ALUN ANDERSONAI Will Make Us Smart and Robots Afraid
MARY CATHERINE BATESONWhen Thinking Machines Are Not a Boon
STEVE FULLERJustice for Machines in an Organicist World
TANIA LOMBROZODon’t Be a Chauvinist About Thinking
VIRGINIA HEFFERNANThis Sounds Like Heaven
BARBARA STRAUCHMachines That Work Until They Don’t
SHEIZAF RAFAELIThe Moving Goalposts
EDWARD SLINGERLANDDirectionless Intelligence
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKISHuman Culture As the First AI
JOICHI ITOBeyond the Uncanny Valley
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFFThe Figure or the Ground?
HELEN FISHERFast, Accurate, and Stupid
STUART RUSSELLWill They Make Us Better People?
ELIEZER S. YUDKOWSKYThe Value-Loading Problem
KATE JEFFERYIn Our Image
MARIA POPOVAThe
Umwelt of the Unanswerable
JESSICA L. TRACY & KRISTIN LAURINWill They Think About Themselves?
JUNE GRUBER & RAUL SAUCEDOOrganic Versus Artifactual Thinking
PAUL DOLANContext Surely Matters
THOMAS G. DIETTERICHHow to Prevent an Intelligence Explosion
MATTHEW D. LIEBERMANThinking from the Inside or the Outside?
MICHAEL VASSARSoft Authoritarianism
GREGORY PAULWhat Will AIs Think About Us?
ANDRIAN KREYEA John Henry Moment
N. J. ENFIELDMachines Aren’t into Relationships
NINA JABLONSKIThe Next Phase of Human Evolution
GARY KLEINDomination Versus Domestication
GARY MARCUSMachines Won’t Be Thinking Anytime Soon
SAM HARRISCan We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse?
MOLLY CROCKETTCould Thinking Machines Bridge the Empathy Gap?
ABIGAIL MARSHCaring Machines
ALEXANDER WISSNER-GROSSEngines of Freedom
SARAH DEMERSAny Questions?
BART KOSKOThinking Machines = Old Algorithms on Faster Computers
JULIA CLARKEThe Disadvantages of Metaphor
MICHAEL MCCULLOUGHA Universal Basis for Human Dignity
HAIM HARARIThinking About People Who Think Like Machines
HANS HALVORSONMetathinking
CHRISTINE FINNThe Value of Anticipation
DIRK HELBINGAn Ecosystem of Ideas
JOHN TOOBYThe Iron Law of Intelligence
MAXIMILIAN SCHICHThought-Stealing Machines
SATYAJIT DASUnintended Consequences
ROBERT SAPOLSKYIt Depends
ATHENA VOULOUMANOSWill Machines Do Our Thinking for Us?
BRIAN CHRISTIANSorry to Bother You
BENJAMIN K. BERGENMoral Machines
LAURENCE C. SMITHAfter the Plug Is Pulled
GIULIO BOCCALETTIMonitoring and Managing the Planet
IAN BOGOSTPanexperientialism
AUBREY DE GREYWhen Is a Minion Not a Minion?
MICHAEL I. NORTONNot Buggy Enough
THOMAS A. BASSMore Funk, More Soul, More Poetry and Art
HANS ULRICH OBRISTThe Future Is Blocked to Us
KOO JEONG-AAn Immaterial Thinkable Machine
RICHARD FOREMANBaffled and Obsessed
RICHARD H. THALERWho’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
SCOTT DRAVESI See a Symbiosis Developing
MATTHEW RITCHIEReimagining the Self in a Distributed World
RAPHAEL BOUSSOIt’s Easy to Predict the Future
JAMES CROAKFear of a God, Redux
ANDRÉS ROEMERTulips on My Robot’s Tomb
LEE SMOLINToward a Naturalistic Account of Mind
STUART A. KAUFFMANMachines That Think? Nuts!
MELANIE SWANThe Future Possibility-Space of Intelligence
TOR NØRRETRANDERSLove
KAI KRAUSEAn Uncanny Three-Ring Test for
Machina sapiensGEORG DIEZFree from Us
EDUARDO SALCEDO-ALBARÁNFlawless AI Seems Like Science Fiction
MARIA SPIROPULUEmergent Hybrid Human/Machine Chimeras
THOMAS METZINGERWhat If They Need to Suffer?
BEATRICE GOLOMBWill We Recognize It When It Happens?
NOGA ARIKHAMetarepresentation
DEMIS HASSABIS, SHANE LEGG & MUSTAFA SULEYMANEnvoi: A Short Distance Ahead—and Plenty to Be Done
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