CONTENTS

1. DEDICATION
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
3. PREFACE: THE 2015 EDGE QUESTION
4. MURRAY SHANAHAN
5. Consciousness in Human-Level AI
6. STEVEN PINKER
7. Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating
8. MARTIN REES
9. Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future
10. STEVE OMOHUNDRO
11. A Turning Point in Artificial Intelligence
12. DIMITAR D. SASSELOV
13. AI Is I
14. FRANK TIPLER
15. If You Can’t Beat ’em, Join ’em
16. MARIO LIVIO
17. Intelligent Machines on Earth and Beyond
18. ANTONY GARRETT LISI
19. I, for One, Welcome Our Machine Overlords
20. JOHN MARKOFF
21. Our Masters, Slaves, or Partners?
22. PAUL DAVIES
23. Designed Intelligence
24. KEVIN P. HAND
25. The Superintelligent Loner
26. JOHN C. MATHER
27. It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
28. DAVID CHRISTIAN
29. Is Anyone in Charge of This Thing?
30. TIMO HANNAY
31. Witness to the Universe
32. MAX TEGMARK
33. Let’s Get Prepared!
34. TOMASO POGGIO
35. “Turing+” Questions
36. PAMELA MCCORDUCK
37. An Epochal Human Event
38. MARCELO GLEISER
39. Welcome to Your Transhuman Self
40. SEAN CARROLL
41. We Are All Machines That Think
42. NICHOLAS G. CARR
43. The Control Crisis
44. JON KLEINBERG & SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN
45. We Built Them, but We Don’t Understand Them
46. JAAN TALLINN
47. We Need to Do Our Homework
48. GEORGE CHURCH
49. What Do You Care What Other Machines Think?
50. ARNOLD TREHUB
51. Machines Cannot Think
52. ROY BAUMEISTER
53. No “I” and No Capacity for Malice
54. KEITH DEVLIN
55. Leveraging Human Intelligence
56. EMANUEL DERMAN
57. A Machine Is a “Matter” Thing
58. FREEMAN DYSON
59. I Could Be Wrong
60. DAVID GELERNTER
61. Why Can’t “Being” or “Happiness” Be Computed?
62. LEO M. CHALUPA
63. No Machine Thinks About the Eternal Questions
64. DANIEL C. DENNETT
65. The Singularity—an Urban Legend?
66. W. TECUMSEH FITCH
67. Nano-Intentionality
68. IRENE PEPPERBERG
69. A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind
70. NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
71. The Colossus Is a BFG
72. ROLF DOBELLI
73. Self-Aware AI? Not in 1,000 Years!
74. CESAR HIDALGO
75. Machines Don’t Think, but Neither Do People
76. JAMES J. O’DONNELL
77. Tangled Up in the Question
78. RODNEY A. BROOKS
79. Mistaking Performance for Competence
80. TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI
81. AI Will Make You Smarter
82. SETH LLOYD
83. Shallow Learning
84. CARLO ROVELLI
85. Natural Creatures of a Natural World
86. FRANK WILCZEK
87. Three Observations on Artificial Intelligence
88. JOHN NAUGHTON
89. When I Say “Bruno Latour,” I Don’t Mean “Banana Till”
90. NICK BOSTROM
91. It’s Still Early Days
92. DONALD D. HOFFMAN
93. Evolving AI
94. ROGER SCHANK
95. Machines That Think Are in the Movies
96. JUAN ENRIQUEZ
97. Head Transplants?
98. ESTHER DYSON
99. AI/AL
100. TOM GRIFFITHS
101. Brains and Other Thinking Machines
102. MARK PAGEL
103. They’ll Do More Good Than Harm
104. ROBERT PROVINE
105. Keeping Them on a Leash
106. SUSAN BLACKMORE
107. The Next Replicator
108. TIM O’REILLY
109. What If We’re the Microbiome of the Silicon AI?
110. ANDY CLARK
111. You Are What You Eat
112. MOSHE HOFFMAN
113. AI’s System of Rights and Government
114. BRIAN KNUTSON
115. The Robot with a Hidden Agenda
116. WILLIAM POUNDSTONE
117. Can Submarines Swim?
118. GREGORY BENFORD
119. Fear Not the AI
120. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
121. What, Me Worry?
122. PETER NORVIG
123. Design Machines to Deal with the World’s Complexity
124. JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL
125. The Rise of Storytelling Machines
126. MICHAEL SHERMER
127. Think Protopia, Not Utopia or Dystopia
128. CHRIS DIBONA
129. The Limits of Biological Intelligence
130. JOSCHA BACH
131. Every Society Gets the AI It Deserves
132. QUENTIN HARDY
133. The Beasts of AI Island
134. CLIFFORD PICKOVER
135. We Will Become One
136. ERNST PÖPPEL
137. An Extraterrestrial Observation on Human Hubris
138. ROSS ANDERSON
139. He Who Pays the AI Calls the Tune
140. W. DANIEL HILLIS
141. I Think, Therefore AI
142. PAUL SAFFO
143. What Will the Place of Humans Be?
144. DYLAN EVANS
145. The Great AI Swindle
146. ANTHONY AGUIRRE
147. The Odds on AI
148. ERIC J. TOPOL
149. A New Wisdom of the Body
150. ROGER HIGHFIELD
151. From Regular-I to AI
152. GORDON KANE
153. We Need More Than Thought
154. SCOTT ATRAN
155. Are We Going in the Wrong Direction?
156. STANISLAS DEHAENE
157. Two Cognitive Functions Machines Still Lack
158. MATT RIDLEY
159. Among the Machines, Not Within the Machines
160. STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN
161. Another Kind of Diversity
162. LUCA DE BIASE
163. Narratives and Our Civilization
164. MARGARET LEVI
165. Human Responsibility
166. D. A. WALLACH
167. Amplifiers/Implementers of Human Choices
168. RORY SUTHERLAND
169. Make the Thing Impossible to Hate
170. BRUCE STERLING
171. Actress Machines
172. KEVIN KELLY
173. Call Them Artificial Aliens
174. MARTIN SELIGMAN
175. Do Machines Do?
176. TIMOTHY TAYLOR
177. Denkraumverlust
178. GEORGE DYSON
179. Analog, the Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name
180. S. ABBAS RAZA
181. The Values of Artificial Intelligence
182. BRUCE PARKER
183. Artificial Selection and Our Grandchildren
184. NEIL GERSHENFELD
185. Really Good Hacks
186. DANIEL L. EVERETT
187. The Airbus and the Eagle
188. DOUGLAS COUPLAND
189. Humanness
190. JOSH BONGARD
191. Manipulators and Manipulanda
192. ZIYAD MARAR
193. Are We Thinking More Like Machines?
194. BRIAN ENO
195. Just a New Fractal Detail in the Big Picture
196. MARTI HEARST
197. eGaia, a Distributed Technical-Social Mental System
198. CHRIS ANDERSON
199. The Hive Mind
200. ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND
201. The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here
202. RANDOLPH NESSE
203. Will Computers Become Like Thinking, Talking Dogs?
204. RICHARD E. NISBETT
205. Thinking Machines and Ennui
206. SAMUEL ARBESMAN
207. Naches from Our Machines
208. GERALD SMALLBERG
209. No Shared Theory of Mind
210. ELDAR SHAFIR
211. Blind to the Core of Human Experience
212. CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS
213. An Intuitive Theory of Machine
214. URSULA MARTIN
215. Thinking Saltmarshes
216. KURT GRAY
217. Killer Thinking Machines Keep Our Conscience Clean
218. BRUCE SCHNEIER
219. When Thinking Machines Break the Law
220. REBECCA MACKINNON
221. Electric Brains
222. GERD GIGERENZER
223. Robodoctors
224. ALISON GOPNIK
225. Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds?
226. KEVIN SLAVIN
227. Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken
228. ALUN ANDERSON
229. AI Will Make Us Smart and Robots Afraid
230. MARY CATHERINE BATESON
231. When Thinking Machines Are Not a Boon
232. STEVE FULLER
233. Justice for Machines in an Organicist World
234. TANIA LOMBROZO
235. Don’t Be a Chauvinist About Thinking
236. VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
237. This Sounds Like Heaven
238. BARBARA STRAUCH
239. Machines That Work Until They Don’t
240. SHEIZAF RAFAELI
241. The Moving Goalposts
242. EDWARD SLINGERLAND
243. Directionless Intelligence
244. NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS
245. Human Culture As the First AI
246. JOICHI ITO
247. Beyond the Uncanny Valley
248. DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
249. The Figure or the Ground?
250. HELEN FISHER
251. Fast, Accurate, and Stupid
252. STUART RUSSELL
253. Will They Make Us Better People?
254. ELIEZER S. YUDKOWSKY
255. The Value-Loading Problem
256. KATE JEFFERY
257. In Our Image
258. MARIA POPOVA
259. The Umwelt of the Unanswerable
260. JESSICA L. TRACY & KRISTIN LAURIN
261. Will They Think About Themselves?
262. JUNE GRUBER & RAUL SAUCEDO
263. Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking
264. PAUL DOLAN
265. Context Surely Matters
266. THOMAS G. DIETTERICH
267. How to Prevent an Intelligence Explosion
268. MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN
269. Thinking from the Inside or the Outside?
270. MICHAEL VASSAR
271. Soft Authoritarianism
272. GREGORY PAUL
273. What Will AIs Think About Us?
274. ANDRIAN KREYE
275. A John Henry Moment
276. N. J. ENFIELD
277. Machines Aren’t into Relationships
278. NINA JABLONSKI
279. The Next Phase of Human Evolution
280. GARY KLEIN
281. Domination Versus Domestication
282. GARY MARCUS
283. Machines Won’t Be Thinking Anytime Soon
284. SAM HARRIS
285. Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse?
286. MOLLY CROCKETT
287. Could Thinking Machines Bridge the Empathy Gap?
288. ABIGAIL MARSH
289. Caring Machines
290. ALEXANDER WISSNER-GROSS
291. Engines of Freedom
292. SARAH DEMERS
293. Any Questions?
294. BART KOSKO
295. Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms on Faster Computers
296. JULIA CLARKE
297. The Disadvantages of Metaphor
298. MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH
299. A Universal Basis for Human Dignity
300. HAIM HARARI
301. Thinking About People Who Think Like Machines
302. HANS HALVORSON
303. Metathinking
304. CHRISTINE FINN
305. The Value of Anticipation
306. DIRK HELBING
307. An Ecosystem of Ideas
308. JOHN TOOBY
309. The Iron Law of Intelligence
310. MAXIMILIAN SCHICH
311. Thought-Stealing Machines
312. SATYAJIT DAS
313. Unintended Consequences
314. ROBERT SAPOLSKY
315. It Depends
316. ATHENA VOULOUMANOS
317. Will Machines Do Our Thinking for Us?
318. BRIAN CHRISTIAN
319. Sorry to Bother You
320. BENJAMIN K. BERGEN
321. Moral Machines
322. LAURENCE C. SMITH
323. After the Plug Is Pulled
324. GIULIO BOCCALETTI
325. Monitoring and Managing the Planet
326. IAN BOGOST
327. Panexperientialism
328. AUBREY DE GREY
329. When Is a Minion Not a Minion?
330. MICHAEL I. NORTON
331. Not Buggy Enough
332. THOMAS A. BASS
333. More Funk, More Soul, More Poetry and Art
334. HANS ULRICH OBRIST
335. The Future Is Blocked to Us
336. KOO JEONG-A
337. An Immaterial Thinkable Machine
338. RICHARD FOREMAN
339. Baffled and Obsessed
340. RICHARD H. THALER
341. Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
342. SCOTT DRAVES
343. I See a Symbiosis Developing
344. MATTHEW RITCHIE
345. Reimagining the Self in a Distributed World
346. RAPHAEL BOUSSO
347. It’s Easy to Predict the Future
348. JAMES CROAK
349. Fear of a God, Redux
350. ANDRÉS ROEMER
351. Tulips on My Robot’s Tomb
352. LEE SMOLIN
353. Toward a Naturalistic Account of Mind
354. STUART A. KAUFFMAN
355. Machines That Think? Nuts!
356. MELANIE SWAN
357. The Future Possibility-Space of Intelligence
358. TOR NØRRETRANDERS
359. Love
360. KAI KRAUSE
361. An Uncanny Three-Ring Test for Machina sapiens
362. GEORG DIEZ
363. Free from Us
364. EDUARDO SALCEDO-ALBARÁN
365. Flawless AI Seems Like Science Fiction
366. MARIA SPIROPULU
367. Emergent Hybrid Human/Machine Chimeras
368. THOMAS METZINGER
369. What If They Need to Suffer?
370. BEATRICE GOLOMB
371. Will We Recognize It When It Happens?
372. NOGA ARIKHA
373. Metarepresentation
374. DEMIS HASSABIS, SHANE LEGG & MUSTAFA SULEYMAN
375. Envoi: A Short Distance Ahead—and Plenty to Be Done
376. NOTES
377. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
378. ALSO BY JOHN BROCKMAN
379. CREDITS
380. BACK ADS
381. COPYRIGHT
382. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER