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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 Regular-I 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
CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS
An Intuitive Theory of Machine
URSULA MARTIN
Thinking Saltmarshes
KURT GRAY
Killer Thinking Machines Keep Our Conscience Clean
BRUCE SCHNEIER
When Thinking Machines Break the Law
REBECCA MACKINNON
Electric Brains
GERD GIGERENZER
Robodoctors
ALISON GOPNIK
Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds?
KEVIN SLAVIN
Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken
ALUN ANDERSON
AI Will Make Us Smart and Robots Afraid
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
When Thinking Machines Are Not a Boon
STEVE FULLER
Justice for Machines in an Organicist World
TANIA LOMBROZO
Don’t Be a Chauvinist About Thinking
VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
This Sounds Like Heaven
BARBARA STRAUCH
Machines That Work Until They Don’t
SHEIZAF RAFAELI
The Moving Goalposts
EDWARD SLINGERLAND
Directionless Intelligence
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS
Human Culture As the First AI
JOICHI ITO
Beyond the Uncanny Valley
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
The Figure or the Ground?
HELEN FISHER
Fast, Accurate, and Stupid
STUART RUSSELL
Will They Make Us Better People?
ELIEZER S. YUDKOWSKY
The Value-Loading Problem
KATE JEFFERY
In Our Image
MARIA POPOVA
The Umwelt of the Unanswerable
JESSICA L. TRACY & KRISTIN LAURIN
Will They Think About Themselves?
JUNE GRUBER & RAUL SAUCEDO
Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking
PAUL DOLAN
Context Surely Matters
THOMAS G. DIETTERICH
How to Prevent an Intelligence Explosion
MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN
Thinking from the Inside or the Outside?
MICHAEL VASSAR
Soft Authoritarianism
GREGORY PAUL
What Will AIs Think About Us?
ANDRIAN KREYE
A John Henry Moment
N. J. ENFIELD
Machines Aren’t into Relationships
NINA JABLONSKI
The Next Phase of Human Evolution
GARY KLEIN
Domination Versus Domestication
GARY MARCUS
Machines Won’t Be Thinking Anytime Soon
SAM HARRIS
Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse?
MOLLY CROCKETT
Could Thinking Machines Bridge the Empathy Gap?
ABIGAIL MARSH
Caring Machines
ALEXANDER WISSNER-GROSS
Engines of Freedom
SARAH DEMERS
Any Questions?
BART KOSKO
Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms on Faster Computers
JULIA CLARKE
The Disadvantages of Metaphor
MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH
A Universal Basis for Human Dignity
HAIM HARARI
Thinking About People Who Think Like Machines
HANS HALVORSON
Metathinking
CHRISTINE FINN
The Value of Anticipation
DIRK HELBING
An Ecosystem of Ideas
JOHN TOOBY
The Iron Law of Intelligence
MAXIMILIAN SCHICH
Thought-Stealing Machines
SATYAJIT DAS
Unintended Consequences
ROBERT SAPOLSKY
It Depends
ATHENA VOULOUMANOS
Will Machines Do Our Thinking for Us?
BRIAN CHRISTIAN
Sorry to Bother You
BENJAMIN K. BERGEN
Moral Machines
LAURENCE C. SMITH
After the Plug Is Pulled
GIULIO BOCCALETTI
Monitoring and Managing the Planet
IAN BOGOST
Panexperientialism
AUBREY DE GREY
When Is a Minion Not a Minion?
MICHAEL I. NORTON
Not Buggy Enough
THOMAS A. BASS
More Funk, More Soul, More Poetry and Art
HANS ULRICH OBRIST
The Future Is Blocked to Us
KOO JEONG-A
An Immaterial Thinkable Machine
RICHARD FOREMAN
Baffled and Obsessed
RICHARD H. THALER
Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
SCOTT DRAVES
I See a Symbiosis Developing
MATTHEW RITCHIE
Reimagining the Self in a Distributed World
RAPHAEL BOUSSO
It’s Easy to Predict the Future
JAMES CROAK
Fear of a God, Redux
ANDRÉS ROEMER
Tulips on My Robot’s Tomb
LEE SMOLIN
Toward a Naturalistic Account of Mind
STUART A. KAUFFMAN
Machines That Think? Nuts!
MELANIE SWAN
The Future Possibility-Space of Intelligence
TOR NØRRETRANDERS
Love
KAI KRAUSE
An Uncanny Three-Ring Test for Machina sapiens
GEORG DIEZ
Free from Us
EDUARDO SALCEDO-ALBARÁN
Flawless AI Seems Like Science Fiction
MARIA SPIROPULU
Emergent Hybrid Human/Machine Chimeras
THOMAS METZINGER
What If They Need to Suffer?
BEATRICE GOLOMB
Will We Recognize It When It Happens?
NOGA ARIKHA
Metarepresentation
DEMIS HASSABIS, SHANE LEGG & MUSTAFA SULEYMAN
Envoi: A Short Distance Ahead—and Plenty to Be Done
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