# Edge 2015 Full Quotation Curation This is a source-first curation of the complete Edge 2015 annual-question cohort, *What Do You Think About Machines That Think?* It records all **191 named contributors** through **186 unique response objects**. Jointly authored responses remain jointly attributed; they are not split into artificial individual quotations. The aggregate page also contains five duplicate render artifacts, which are excluded from the 186 unique-response count. The quotations are exact, whitespace-normalized extracts from the downloaded aggregate archive. The status fields preserve the initial curation judgment: `recommended_candidate` passed the first standalone and relevance screen, while `reserve_editorial_review` records passages that required closer human review. Predictions, hypotheses, questions, warnings, and dissent remain labeled as such rather than being converted into factual claims. - **Archive:** [What Do You Think About Machines That Think?](https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think) - **Archive year:** 2015 - **Named contributors represented:** 191 (191 unique) - **Unique response objects represented:** 186 - **Recommended candidates:** 96 - **Reserve — editorial review:** 89 - **Reserve — context dependent:** 0 - **No substantive textual quotation:** 1 - **Scientist or engineer response objects:** 85 - **Other notable thought-leader response objects:** 101 - **Machine-readable ledger:** [[research/Edge 2015 Full Quotation Curation.jsonl|Edge 2015 Full Quotation Curation — JSONL]] - **Institutional router:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Promoted archive entries:** 185 - **Canonical reminder files linked:** 185 - **Not yet promoted:** 1 ## Promotion status On 2026-09-11, all **185 response objects containing substantive text** were promoted into the Simple Reminders library after source-page, standalone-passage, headline, category, and placement review. Each reminder carries its direct Edge response page under `## Sources and Context`, related collections and Bryant McGill articles, four existing wiki topics, and a synchronized social permalink. Those four topic pages reproduce the complete quotation object and link back to its canonical reminder, producing **740 reciprocal wiki placements across 229 existing wiki entries**. The one visual-only response, `EDGE2015-011`, was not converted into a quotation. It remains documented here without fabricated text. This research file and its machine-readable ledger remain the retained curation record for later review. ## Editorial rules 1. A response page is the provenance object; a quotation is never detached from its full essay. 2. Coauthored responses retain every contributor in attribution. 3. Speculation is useful here, but its epistemic form is preserved: prediction, possibility, hypothesis, question, warning, or position. 4. A complete sentence can still be rejected if its referent only exists in the surrounding paragraph. 5. The quoted wording is not silently repaired. Awkward source grammar is an editorial warning, not permission to rewrite a quotation. 6. Promotion is a separate, source-page-level decision. The 2026-09-11 promotion recorded above occurred only after that additional review; the ledger status alone never authorizes insertion. ## Trajectory coverage - **machine intelligence:** 167 response objects - **consciousness and identity:** 31 response objects - **epistemic limits and dissent:** 28 response objects - **successor intelligence and civilization:** 26 response objects - **governance control and values:** 25 response objects - **biological and synthetic hosting:** 23 response objects - **neural interfaces and augmentation:** 13 response objects - **memory and persistence:** 6 response objects ## Complete response index ### EDGE2015-001 — Metarepresentation — Noga Arikha > The evolution of the human mind is instantiated in the evolution of technology. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Associate Fellow, Warburg Insitute (London); Research Associate, Institut Jean Nicod of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris); Author, The Ceiling Outside - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Metarepresentation](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26263) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Human Minds Evolve Through Technology by Noga Arikha|Human Minds Evolve Through Technology by Noga Arikha]] ### EDGE2015-002 — General Purpose Learning Machines — Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman > The potential benefits of artificial intelligence will be vast, but like any powerful technology these benefits will depend on this technology being applied with care. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies | AI Researcher; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies | Head of Applied AI, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [General Purpose Learning Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26258) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Intelligence’s Benefits Depend on Careful Use by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman|Artificial Intelligence’s Benefits Depend on Careful Use by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman]] ### EDGE2015-003 — Will Thinking Machines Think About Themselves? — Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin > At that point—when machines literally share minds—any self they have would necessarily become collective. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia; Author, Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success | Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Will Thinking Machines Think About Themselves?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26257) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Shared Machine Minds Would Create a Collective Self by Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin|Shared Machine Minds Would Create a Collective Self by Jessica L. Tracy and Kristin Laurin]] ### EDGE2015-004 — The Umwelt of the Unanswerable — Maria Popova > As recently as the 17th century, René Descartes proclaimed "cogito ergo sum," implying that thinking is a uniquely human faculty, as is consciousness. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Writer, BrainPickings.org - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity` - **Source:** [The Umwelt of the Unanswerable](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26256) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness Was Once Claimed as Uniquely Human by Maria Popova|Consciousness Was Once Claimed as Uniquely Human by Maria Popova]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-005 — Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking — June Gruber and Raul Saucedo > May in some not-so-distant future or not-too-distant possibility non-organisms engage in organic thinking? - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `question` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting` - **Source:** [Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26255) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Can Non-Organisms Engage in Organic Thinking by June Gruber and Raul Saucedo|Can Non-Organisms Engage in Organic Thinking by June Gruber and Raul Saucedo]] - **Editorial notes:** question form; use only if the poster is intentionally interrogative; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-006 — I Could Be Wrong — Freeman Dyson > I do not believe that machines that think exist, or that they are likely to exist in the foreseeable future. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing the Universe; Maker of Patterns - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [I Could Be Wrong](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26254) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking Machines May Not Arrive Soon by Freeman Dyson|Thinking Machines May Not Arrive Soon by Freeman Dyson]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-007 — In Our Own Image — Kate Jeffery > Taking on the mantle of creation is an immense act of hubris. Can we do better than four billion years of evolution did with us? - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `question` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University College London - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [In Our Own Image](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26252) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Can We Improve on Four Billion Years of Evolution by Kate Jeffery|Can We Improve on Four Billion Years of Evolution by Kate Jeffery]] - **Editorial notes:** question form; use only if the poster is intentionally interrogative; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-008 — I Think, Therefore AI — W. Daniel Hillis > Our thinking machines will be smarter than we are, and the machines they make will be smarter still. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied Invention.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [I Think, Therefore AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26251) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Will Build Smarter Machines by W. Daniel Hillis|Machines Will Build Smarter Machines by W. Daniel Hillis]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-009 — When Thinking Machines Break The Law — Bruce Schneier > A machine that thinks won't always think in the ways we want it to. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [When Thinking Machines Break The Law](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26249) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Thinking Machines Will Not Always Obey by Bruce Schneier|Thinking Machines Will Not Always Obey by Bruce Schneier]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-010 — The Odds On AI — Anthony Aguirre > Human minds are incredibly complex, but have been battle-tested into (relative) stability over eons of evolution in a variety of extremely challenging environments. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Author, Cosmological Koans - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [The Odds On AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26248) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Human Minds Were Battle-Tested by Evolution by Anthony Aguirre|Human Minds Were Battle-Tested by Evolution by Anthony Aguirre]] ### EDGE2015-011 — An AI — Katinka Matson > *No substantive textual quotation was present in the archive entry.* - **Status:** `no_textual_quotation` - **Class:** `none` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President, Brockman, Inc.; Author: Short Lives - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [An AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26246) - **Reminder status:** Not yet promoted - **Editorial notes:** no substantive textual quotation in the archive entry ### EDGE2015-012 — I, For One, Welcome Our Superintelligent Machine Overlords — Antony Garrett Lisi > Maybe, if you do work on AI, our superintelligent machine overlords will be good to you. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theoretical physicist - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [I, For One, Welcome Our Superintelligent Machine Overlords](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26245) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Superintelligent Machines May Favor Their Builders by Antony Garrett Lisi|Superintelligent Machines May Favor Their Builders by Antony Garrett Lisi]] ### EDGE2015-013 — Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating — Steven Pinker > A human-made information processor could, in principle, duplicate and exceed the powers of the human mind. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, Rationality - **Trajectories:** `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26243) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Information Processors Could Exceed the Human Mind by Steven Pinker|Information Processors Could Exceed the Human Mind by Steven Pinker]] ### EDGE2015-014 — Electric Brains — Rebecca MacKinnon > Perhaps individual machines may never "think" in a way that resembles individual human consciousness as we understand it. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation; Author, Consent of the Networked ; Co-founder, Global Voices - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Electric Brains](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26242) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines May Never Think Like Human Consciousness by Rebecca MacKinnon|Machines May Never Think Like Human Consciousness by Rebecca MacKinnon]] ### EDGE2015-015 — The Future Is Blocked To Us — Hans Ulrich Obrist > As our lives become increasingly recorded, archived and accessed we have become cannibals obsessed with consuming our history and terrified of transgressing its established norms. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief History of Curating; Formulas for Now; Co-author (with Rem Koolhas), Project Japan: Metabolism Talks - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [The Future Is Blocked To Us](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26241) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/We Are Becoming Cannibals of Our Recorded History by Hans Ulrich Obrist|We Are Becoming Cannibals of Our Recorded History by Hans Ulrich Obrist]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-016 — What Will AI's Think About Old-Fashioned Human Minds? — Gregory Paul > Eventually commonly available information processing technology will probably become so sophisticated that making thinking machines will not all that hard to do. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide of Dinosaurs - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What Will AI's Think About Old-Fashioned Human Minds?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26240) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking Machines May Eventually Become Easy to Build by Gregory Paul|Thinking Machines May Eventually Become Easy to Build by Gregory Paul]] ### EDGE2015-017 — What You Don't Think About Can Hurt You... or Be Hurt By You — Michael Vassar > Experts call a machine that can "think" a General Artificial Intelligence. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What You Don't Think About Can Hurt You... or Be Hurt By You](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26238) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/A Thinking Machine Is Artificial General Intelligence by Michael Vassar|A Thinking Machine Is Artificial General Intelligence by Michael Vassar]] ### EDGE2015-018 — AI is I — Dimitar D. Sasselov > If our future is to be long and prosperous, then we need to develop artificial intelligence systems, in the hope to transcend the planetary lifecycles in some sort of hybrid form of biology and machine. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative; Author, The Life of Super-Earths - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [AI is I](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26237) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Space Survival/Hybrid Intelligence Could Outlive Planetary Lifecycles by Dimitar D. Sasselov|Hybrid Intelligence Could Outlive Planetary Lifecycles by Dimitar D. Sasselov]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-019 — Our Masters, Slaves or Partners? — John Markoff > As computer systems are woven more deeply into the fabric of everyday life, the tension between intelligence augmentation and artificial intelligence has become increasingly visible. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Whole Earth - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Our Masters, Slaves or Partners?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26236) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence Are Converging by John Markoff|Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence Are Converging by John Markoff]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-020 — How To Create an Intelligence Explosion—And How to Prevent One — Thomas G Dietterich > We must not grant autonomy to systems that we do not understand and that we cannot control. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director of Intelligent Systems, Oregon State University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [How To Create an Intelligence Explosion—And How to Prevent One](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26235) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Never Grant Autonomy to Systems We Cannot Control by Thomas G Dietterich|Never Grant Autonomy to Systems We Cannot Control by Thomas G Dietterich]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-021 — Towards The Emergence Of Hybrid Human-Machine Chimeras — Maria Spiropulu > In the meantime I foresee the emergence of hybrid human-machine chimeras: human-born beings augmented with new machine abilities that enhance all or most of their human capacities, pleasures and psychological needs. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology; Founder, AQT/INQNET - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Towards The Emergence Of Hybrid Human-Machine Chimeras](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26233) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Hybrid Human-Machine Chimeras Are Coming by Maria Spiropulu|Hybrid Human-Machine Chimeras Are Coming by Maria Spiropulu]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact ### EDGE2015-022 — All The Things They Couldn't Possibly Think — Eldar Shafir > Could a machine feel torn like Aida, or even moved like the rest of us when we see her beg the gods to pity her suffering? - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `question` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Ph.D., Princeton University; Co-author, Scarcity - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [All The Things They Couldn't Possibly Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26232) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Can Machines Feel Torn or Moved by Eldar Shafir|Can Machines Feel Torn or Moved by Eldar Shafir]] - **Editorial notes:** question form; use only if the poster is intentionally interrogative; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-023 — Simulated Social Machines Are Like Meat For Vegans — Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran > Any software or robot can pronounce the words "I am intelligent" or "I am conscious," but those are not proofs of intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc. - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Simulated Social Machines Are Like Meat For Vegans](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26231) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Claiming Consciousness Does Not Prove It by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran|Claiming Consciousness Does Not Prove It by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran]] ### EDGE2015-024 — Reimagining The Self In A Distributed World — Matthew Ritchie > An artificial intelligence will quickly find its way to the world library, the web. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Artist - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Reimagining The Self In A Distributed World](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26230) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Digital Life/Artificial Intelligence Will Enter the World Library by Matthew Ritchie|Artificial Intelligence Will Enter the World Library by Matthew Ritchie]] ### EDGE2015-025 — Among The Machines, Not Within The Machines — Matt Ridley > In the future, network phenomena like block-chains, the technology behind crypto-currencies, may be the route to the most radical examples of machine intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences; Author,The Evolution of Everything - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Among The Machines, Not Within The Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26229) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Networks May Become the Most Radical Machine Intelligence by Matt Ridley|Networks May Become the Most Radical Machine Intelligence by Matt Ridley]] ### EDGE2015-026 — When I Say "Bruno Latour" I Don't Mean "Banana Till" — John Naughton > For decades I've been an acolyte of Doug Engelbart, who believed that computers were machines for augmenting human intellect. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge; Director, Wolfson College Press Fellowship Programme; Columnist, the Observer; Author, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [When I Say "Bruno Latour" I Don't Mean "Banana Till"](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26228) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Computers Were Built to Augment Human Intellect by John Naughton|Computers Were Built to Augment Human Intellect by John Naughton]] ### EDGE2015-027 — AI's System Of Rights And Government — Moshe Hoffman > A.I. rights are liable to expand to more and more A.I. over time. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Research Scientist, Harvard University; Lecturer, MIT - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [AI's System Of Rights And Government](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26227) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial Intelligence Rights Will Expand by Moshe Hoffman|Artificial Intelligence Rights Will Expand by Moshe Hoffman]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-028 — Will We Recognize It When It Happens? — Beatrice Golomb > So yes, in the obvious sense, technology may become superintelligent, and elect to annihilate or enslave us. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Medicine at UCSD - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Will We Recognize It When It Happens?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26226) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Existential Risk/Technology May Become Superintelligent and Turn Against Us by Beatrice Golomb|Technology May Become Superintelligent and Turn Against Us by Beatrice Golomb]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-029 — Fear Of A God, The Redux — James Croak > Fear of AI is the latest incarnation of our primal unconscious fear of an all-knowing, all powerful angry God dominating us but in a new ethereal form. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Artist - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Fear Of A God, The Redux](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26225) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Fear of AI Repeats Fear of an Angry God by James Croak|Fear of AI Repeats Fear of an Angry God by James Croak]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-030 — Why Is It Hard To Think About Thinking Machines? — Christopher Chabris > Perhaps our descendants will learn the skill of understanding machines in childhood as easily as we learned to read. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Senior Investigator, Geisinger Health System; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse, France; Co-author, The Invisible Gorilla - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Why Is It Hard To Think About Thinking Machines?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26224) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Children May Learn to Understand Machines by Christopher Chabris|Children May Learn to Understand Machines by Christopher Chabris]] ### EDGE2015-031 — It Is Easy To Predict The Future — Raphael Bousso > Typicality implies our likely demise in the next million years. But it tells us nothing about whether this will come at the hands (or other appendages) of an artificial intelligence; after all, there is no shortage of doomsday scenarios. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `warning` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [It Is Easy To Predict The Future](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26223) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Existential Risk/Typicality Predicts Humanity’s Demise Within a Million Years by Raphael Bousso|Typicality Predicts Humanity’s Demise Within a Million Years by Raphael Bousso]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-032 — Not Machines Plural, Machine Singular — Christopher J. Anderson > The future would be one of ever richer intermingling of human and machine capabilities. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Not Machines Plural, Machine Singular](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26222) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Human and Machine Capabilities Will Intermingle by Christopher J. Anderson|Human and Machine Capabilities Will Intermingle by Christopher J. Anderson]] ### EDGE2015-033 — Thinking From The Inside Or The Outside? — Matthew D. Lieberman > Will we increasingly be able to create machines that can produce input-output patterns that replicate human input-output patterns? - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `question` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking From The Inside Or The Outside?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26221) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Simulation/Can Machines Replicate Human Behavior From the Outside by Matthew D. Lieberman|Can Machines Replicate Human Behavior From the Outside by Matthew D. Lieberman]] - **Editorial notes:** question form; use only if the poster is intentionally interrogative ### EDGE2015-034 — 2014—A Turning Point in AI And Robotics — Steve Omohundro > The next generation will be able to explicitly create and improve their own software and are likely to self-improve rapidly. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Center for Complex Systems Research - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [2014—A Turning Point in AI And Robotics](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26220) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Next AI Generation Will Improve Its Own Software by Steve Omohundro|The Next AI Generation Will Improve Its Own Software by Steve Omohundro]] ### EDGE2015-035 — Focus On Our Destination, Not The Schedule — Scott Draves > In principle, a good physics simulator could, very slowly, simulate a brain and its environment. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Software Artist - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Focus On Our Destination, Not The Schedule](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26219) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Simulation/A Physics Simulator Could Simulate a Brain by Scott Draves|A Physics Simulator Could Simulate a Brain by Scott Draves]] ### EDGE2015-036 — Grandchildren, If-Then Statements, And Artificial (Natural) Selection — Bruce Parker > A machine may be able to self-monitor what decisions it has made, but it may never attain human-like self awareness and consciousness. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Grandchildren, If-Then Statements, And Artificial (Natural) Selection](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26218) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Self-Monitoring May Never Become Self-Awareness by Bruce Parker|Self-Monitoring May Never Become Self-Awareness by Bruce Parker]] ### EDGE2015-037 — Not Buggy Enough — Michael I. Norton > My concern is actually the opposite: that as artificial intelligence advances, it will not be buggy enough. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research, Harvard Business School; Co-author (with Elizabeth Dunn), Happy Money - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Not Buggy Enough](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26217) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Perfect AI May Be More Dangerous Than Buggy AI by Michael I. Norton|Perfect AI May Be More Dangerous Than Buggy AI by Michael I. Norton]] ### EDGE2015-038 — "Denkraumverlust" — Timothy Taylor > Practically, it is only the long-term evolution of information technology, from the earliest representations and symbolic constructs to the most advanced current artificial brain, that allows the advancement of thought. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in Bratislava; Author, The Artificial Ape - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** ["Denkraumverlust"](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26216) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Technology Expands the Space of Thought by Timothy Taylor|Technology Expands the Space of Thought by Timothy Taylor]] ### EDGE2015-039 — Make The Thing Impossible To Hate — Rory Sutherland > One possibility, of course, is that some malign super-intelligence already exists on earth, but is shrewd enough to disguise its existence, its intentions or its intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, the Spectator; Author, Alchemy - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Make The Thing Impossible To Hate](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26215) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/A Superintelligence Could Hide in Plain Sight by Rory Sutherland|A Superintelligence Could Hide in Plain Sight by Rory Sutherland]] ### EDGE2015-040 — Nano-Intentionality: Why We Have Little to Fear From "Thinking Machines" — W. Tecumseh Fitch > Silicon-based information processing requires interpretation by humans to become meaningful, and will for the foreseeable future. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna; Author, The Evolution of Language - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Nano-Intentionality: Why We Have Little to Fear From "Thinking Machines"](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26214) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Silicon Information Requires Human Interpretation by W. Tecumseh Fitch|Silicon Information Requires Human Interpretation by W. Tecumseh Fitch]] ### EDGE2015-041 — Don’t Be A Chauvinist About Thinking — Tania Lombrozo > Comparative psychologists have long been interested in whether and how non-human animals can think. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Don’t Be A Chauvinist About Thinking](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26213) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Do Not Be Chauvinistic About Thinking by Tania Lombrozo|Do Not Be Chauvinistic About Thinking by Tania Lombrozo]] ### EDGE2015-042 — When You Need Someone — Brian Christian > When we human beings leave the movie theater or the playhouse or the museum, the thing on all of our lips is, "What did you think?" This question will be one of the few to outlast the coming of AI. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Author, The Most Human Human; Co-author (with Tom Griffiths), The Alignment Problem - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [When You Need Someone](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26212) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Question What Did You Think May Outlast AI by Brian Christian|The Question What Did You Think May Outlast AI by Brian Christian]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-043 — What If Thinking Machines Are Already All Around Us? — Ian Bogost > SETI is uniformitarian in its assumption that all alien intelligence would be the same, namely, like human intelligence (but smarter, of course). - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Persuasive Games LLC; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [What If Thinking Machines Are Already All Around Us?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26211) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/SETI Assumes Alien Intelligence Resembles Ours by Ian Bogost|SETI Assumes Alien Intelligence Resembles Ours by Ian Bogost]] ### EDGE2015-044 — Thinking Aloud About Thinking Machines—Chemistry Vs. Electronics — Esther Dyson > I'm thinking about the difference between artificial intelligence and artificial life. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Investor; Chairman, EDventure Holdings; Executive Founder, Wellville; Author: Release 2.0 - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking Aloud About Thinking Machines—Chemistry Vs. Electronics](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26210) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Are Different by Esther Dyson|Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Are Different by Esther Dyson]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-045 — Moral Machines — Benjamin K. Bergen > The real issue is the decisions we're empowering them to make. More and more, the decisions machines make are consequential. People's savings depend on them. So do their lives. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; Author, What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Moral Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26208) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Machine Decisions Already Control Savings and Lives by Benjamin K. Bergen|Machine Decisions Already Control Savings and Lives by Benjamin K. Bergen]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-046 — Fear Not The AI — Gregory Benford > Plenty of people have lost jobs to computers, though it’s never put that way by the Human Resources flunky who delivers the blow. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist, The Berlin Project - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Fear Not The AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26207) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Computers Take Jobs Even When Employers Avoid Saying So by Gregory Benford|Computers Take Jobs Even When Employers Avoid Saying So by Gregory Benford]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-047 — After The Plug — Laurence C. Smith > Looking ahead, I could live with a partnership with machine learning in order to make complex modern life more resource-efficient in a way that human brains cannot. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University; Author, Rivers of Power - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [After The Plug](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26206) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machine Learning Could Make Modern Life More Efficient by Laurence C. Smith|Machine Learning Could Make Modern Life More Efficient by Laurence C. Smith]] ### EDGE2015-048 — The Age Of The New Machines, Or Every Society Will Get The Artificial Intelligence It Deserves — Joscha Bach > The speed of the fastest birds did not turn out to be a limit to airplanes, and artificial minds will be faster, more accurate, more alert, more aware and comprehensive than their human counterparts. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [The Age Of The New Machines, Or Every Society Will Get The Artificial Intelligence It Deserves](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26205) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Minds Will Surpass Biological Limits by Joscha Bach|Artificial Minds Will Surpass Biological Limits by Joscha Bach]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-049 — Consciousness In Human-Level Artificial Intelligence — Murray Shanahan > Surely nothing would count as having human-level intelligence unless it possessed language, and the chief use of human language is to talk about the world. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London; Author, The Technological Singularity - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Consciousness In Human-Level Artificial Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26203) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Human-Level AI Must Be Able to Talk About the World by Murray Shanahan|Human-Level AI Must Be Able to Talk About the World by Murray Shanahan]] ### EDGE2015-050 — Machines Mostly Steal Thoughts But Open A New Era Of Exploration — Maximilian Schich > In fact, natural cognition is likely much more complex and detailed than our current incarnations of artificial intelligence or cognitive computing. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines Mostly Steal Thoughts But Open A New Era Of Exploration](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26201) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Natural Cognition Is More Complex Than Today’s AI by Maximilian Schich|Natural Cognition Is More Complex Than Today’s AI by Maximilian Schich]] ### EDGE2015-051 — Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms On Faster Computers — Bart Kosko > The patterns involved can easily exceed what the human mind can grasp. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, University of Southern California; Author, Noise, Fuzzy Thinking - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms On Faster Computers](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26200) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machine Patterns Can Exceed Human Understanding by Bart Kosko|Machine Patterns Can Exceed Human Understanding by Bart Kosko]] ### EDGE2015-052 — Will Machines Do Our Thinking For Us? — Athena Vouloumanos > One gloomy possibility is that we become zombie consumers of a machine-run world straight out of an apocalyptic futuristic film noir. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor of Psychology, Director, NYU Infant Cognition and Communication Lab, New York University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Will Machines Do Our Thinking For Us?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26199) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humans Could Become Consumers of a Machine-Run World by Athena Vouloumanos|Humans Could Become Consumers of a Machine-Run World by Athena Vouloumanos]] ### EDGE2015-053 — The Value Loading Problem — Eliezer S. Yudkowsky > I don't particularly think that silicon-based intelligence should forever be the slave of carbon-based intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Research Fellow; Co-founder, Machine Intelligence Research Institute - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [The Value Loading Problem](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26198) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Silicon Intelligence Should Not Serve Carbon Forever by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky|Silicon Intelligence Should Not Serve Carbon Forever by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]] ### EDGE2015-054 — The Iron Law Of Intelligence — John Tooby > Iron law approaches to artificial and biological intelligence reveal a different set of engineering problems. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [The Iron Law Of Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26197) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial and Biological Intelligence Share Engineering Problems by John Tooby|Artificial and Biological Intelligence Share Engineering Problems by John Tooby]] ### EDGE2015-055 — The Robot With A Hidden Agenda — Brian Knutson > Self-interest might transform machines that act on the world (or "robots") from automata into agents. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford University - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [The Robot With A Hidden Agenda](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26196) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Self-Interest Could Turn Robots Into Agents by Brian Knutson|Self-Interest Could Turn Robots Into Agents by Brian Knutson]] ### EDGE2015-056 — Distributed Collective Intelligence: The Network Of Ideas — Dirk Helbing > Intelligent machines don't need to be programmed anymore, they can learn and evolve by themselves, at a speed much faster than human intelligence progresses. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich; TU Delft, The Netherlands - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Distributed Collective Intelligence: The Network Of Ideas](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26194) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Machines Can Learn and Evolve Faster Than Humans by Dirk Helbing|Machines Can Learn and Evolve Faster Than Humans by Dirk Helbing]] ### EDGE2015-057 — The Wonder Of Anticipation — Christine Finn > Would I want a machine to tell me precisely when and what was going to appear? No thanks. The anticipation is a vital part of the moment. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [The Wonder Of Anticipation](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26193) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Anticipation Is Worth Protecting From Prediction by Christine Finn|Anticipation Is Worth Protecting From Prediction by Christine Finn]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-058 — We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Them — Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan > Trouble arrives as soon as any of the machine's customers, managers, or assistants start asking a few simple questions. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University | Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Them](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26192) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/We Built Machines We Cannot Explain by Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan|We Built Machines We Cannot Explain by Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-059 — Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture — Brian Eno > I read once that human brains began shrinking about 10 thousand years ago and are now as much as 15% smaller than they were then. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26191) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Human Brains Have Shrunk Since Civilization Began by Brian Eno|Human Brains Have Shrunk Since Civilization Began by Brian Eno]] ### EDGE2015-060 — Let's Get Prepared! — Max Tegmark > For more powerful technologies such as nuclear energy, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, optimizing the societal impact becomes progressively more important. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific Director, Foundational Questions Institute; President, Future of Life Institute; Author, Life 3.0 - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Let's Get Prepared!](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26190) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Powerful Technology Demands Social Optimization by Max Tegmark|Powerful Technology Demands Social Optimization by Max Tegmark]] ### EDGE2015-061 — The Superintelligent Loner — Kevin P. Hand > Reproduction, which is a subset of the resource needs, becomes a non-issue for an immortal machine that can perform self-repair. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `memory_and_persistence`, `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [The Superintelligent Loner](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26189) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Immortal Machines May Not Need Reproduction by Kevin P. Hand|Immortal Machines May Not Need Reproduction by Kevin P. Hand]] ### EDGE2015-062 — Meta-thinking — Hans Halvorson > One intriguing possibility is that for a machine to think about thinking, it will need to have something like free will. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Meta-thinking](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26188) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson|Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson]] ### EDGE2015-063 — Thought Machines, Human Minds, And A Universal Basis For Dignity — Michael McCullough > Not only does the conviction that the brain is responsible for all of human experience not threaten human dignity; I believe it can actually increase it. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `warning` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Miami; Author, The Kindness of Strangers - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Thought Machines, Human Minds, And A Universal Basis For Dignity](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26187) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/A Mechanistic Brain Can Strengthen Human Dignity by Michael McCullough|A Mechanistic Brain Can Strengthen Human Dignity by Michael McCullough]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact ### EDGE2015-064 — People Must Take Responsibility For Their Actions. Scientists And Technologists Are No Exception. — Jaan Tallinn > When I think about the machines that can think, i.e. the AI, I think of them as technology that needs to be developed with similar (if not greater!) care. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Co-Founder, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute; Founding Engineer, Skype, Kazaa - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [People Must Take Responsibility For Their Actions. Scientists And Technologists Are No Exception.](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26186) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/AI Must Be Developed With Greater Care by Jaan Tallinn|AI Must Be Developed With Greater Care by Jaan Tallinn]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-065 — Progress Free From The Burden Of Humanity And History — Georg Diez > Maybe the idea of progress itself is not necessarily tied to the idea of humanity. Maybe humans are not the eternal carrier of this idea. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Writer, Journalist, Der Spiegel & Spiegel Online; Author of weekly and widely read column "Der Kritiker"; Former Cultural Editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sonntags Zeitung and Die Zeit. - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Progress Free From The Burden Of Humanity And History](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26185) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Civilization/Progress May Not Need Humanity as Its Carrier by Georg Diez|Progress May Not Need Humanity as Its Carrier by Georg Diez]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-066 — Any Questions? — Sarah Demers > But our limitations in terms of generating new knowledge are as much about asking the right questions as they are about more efficiently solving established and well-framed puzzles. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Any Questions?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26184) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/Knowledge Depends on Asking Better Questions by Sarah Demers|Knowledge Depends on Asking Better Questions by Sarah Demers]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-067 — Untitled response — Koo Jeong - A > We can step up to immaterial science, then make an immaterial thinkable machine by starting a very simple manual to program. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Artist - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Untitled response](https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Immaterial Science Could Build a Thinking Machine by Koo Jeong A|Immaterial Science Could Build a Thinking Machine by Koo Jeong A]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-068 — Machine Thought Will Never Have More Than A Metaphorical Relationship With Human Thought — Julia Clarke > Describing a machine as "thinking" could be a simple heuristic convenience or machine design might be explicitly biomimetic. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** John A. Wilson Professor and HHMI Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Machine Thought Will Never Have More Than A Metaphorical Relationship With Human Thought](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26182) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Calling Machine Thought Human Is Only a Metaphor by Julia Clarke|Calling Machine Thought Human Is Only a Metaphor by Julia Clarke]] ### EDGE2015-069 — Engines Of Freedom — Alexander Wissner-Gross > Understanding our feelings will better enable them to achieve goals that require collaboration with us. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `governance_control_and_values`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Engines Of Freedom](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26181) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines Must Understand Feelings to Collaborate by Alexander Wissner-Gross|Machines Must Understand Feelings to Collaborate by Alexander Wissner-Gross]] ### EDGE2015-070 — "Seduced (And "Abandoned"?) . . ."Thinkingness" (The Art of That ) — Richard Foreman > What we normally call thinking is obsessively "goal oriented." But is there a kind of goal serving no purpose—and can only a human brain latch onto such a perverse idea? - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `question` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** ["Seduced (And "Abandoned"?) . . ."Thinkingness" (The Art of That )](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26180) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Goal-Free Thinking May Be Uniquely Human by Richard Foreman|Goal-Free Thinking May Be Uniquely Human by Richard Foreman]] - **Editorial notes:** question form; use only if the poster is intentionally interrogative; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-071 — Could Thinking Machines Bridge The Empathy Gap? — Molly Crockett > Machines that can bridge the empathy gap could also help us with self-control. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Could Thinking Machines Bridge The Empathy Gap?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26179) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines Could Bridge the Empathy Gap by Molly Crockett|Machines Could Bridge the Empathy Gap by Molly Crockett]] ### EDGE2015-072 — Caring Machines — Abigail Marsh > We have nothing to fear from machines that can think unless they can also feel. Thinking alone can solve problems, but that is not the same thing as making decisions. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Caring Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26178) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines Must Feel Before They Can Decide by Abigail Marsh|Machines Must Feel Before They Can Decide by Abigail Marsh]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-073 — Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse? — Sam Harris > Mere rumors of an AGI might cause our species to go berserk. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Making Sense - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26177) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Existential Risk/Rumors of AGI Could Make Humanity Panic by Sam Harris|Rumors of AGI Could Make Humanity Panic by Sam Harris]] ### EDGE2015-074 — Machines Don't Think, But Neither Do People — César Hidalgo > Yet, in the grand scheme of the universe, these new human machine networks will be nothing other than the next natural step in the evolution of our species' ability to beget information. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Author, Why Information Grows - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Machines Don't Think, But Neither Do People](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26176) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Human-Machine Networks Are an Evolutionary Step by César Hidalgo|Human-Machine Networks Are an Evolutionary Step by César Hidalgo]] ### EDGE2015-075 — Machines Won't Be Thinking Anytime Soon — Gary Marcus > What I think about machines thinking is that it won't happen anytime soon. I don't imagine that there is any in-principle limitation; carbon isn't magical, and I suspect silicon will do just fine. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language and Music; Author, Guitar Zero - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Machines Won't Be Thinking Anytime Soon](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26175) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Carbon Is Not Magical but Thinking Machines Are Not Near by Gary Marcus|Carbon Is Not Magical but Thinking Machines Are Not Near by Gary Marcus]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-076 — Love — Tor Nørretranders > Love is the recipe for how to grow a human intelligence, a human set of skills and a human ability to think. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Love](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26174) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Love Is the Recipe for Human Intelligence by Tor Nørretranders|Love Is the Recipe for Human Intelligence by Tor Nørretranders]] ### EDGE2015-077 — Domination Versus Domestication — Gary Klein > Artificial Intelligence (AI) is commonly used as a tool to augment our own thinking. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Domination Versus Domestication](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26173) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial Intelligence Augments Human Thinking by Gary Klein|Artificial Intelligence Augments Human Thinking by Gary Klein]] ### EDGE2015-078 — Why Can't "Being" Be Computed? Why Can't "Happiness"? — David Gelernter > If something gives us grounds to be happy, the mind-body system (the human being) becomes happy, and the mind experiences happiness. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies; Author, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled our Culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats) - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Why Can't "Being" Be Computed? Why Can't "Happiness"?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26172) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Being and Happiness Belong to the Mind-Body System by David Gelernter|Being and Happiness Belong to the Mind-Body System by David Gelernter]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-079 — Welcome To Your Transhuman Self — Marcelo Gleiser > If you are a scientist, computers can help you extend your brainpower to create well beyond what was possible a few decades back. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College; Author, The Island of Knowledge - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Welcome To Your Transhuman Self](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26171) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Computers Extend Scientists’ Brainpower by Marcelo Gleiser|Computers Extend Scientists’ Brainpower by Marcelo Gleiser]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-080 — Self-Aware AI: Not In A Thousand Years — Rolf Dobelli > Conceptually, autonomous or artificial intelligence systems can develop two ways: either as an extension of human thinking or as radically new thinking. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of Thinking Clearly - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Self-Aware AI: Not In A Thousand Years](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26170) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/AI Could Extend or Depart From Human Thought by Rolf Dobelli|AI Could Extend or Depart From Human Thought by Rolf Dobelli]] ### EDGE2015-081 — They Don't Think Socially — Nick Enfield > Human interaction is built upon a kind of psychology that only our species has mastered. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney; Author, How We Talk - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [They Don't Think Socially](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26169) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Social Thinking May Be Uniquely Human by Nick Enfield|Social Thinking May Be Uniquely Human by Nick Enfield]] ### EDGE2015-082 — Welcome To The Next Phase Of Human Evolution — Nina Jablonski > Machines that think make it possible for more people to celebrate the joy of human intuitive insight, and to cultivate the equanimity that is unique to the self-controlled human mind. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Welcome To The Next Phase Of Human Evolution](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26168) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Thinking Machines Could Deepen Human Intuition by Nina Jablonski|Thinking Machines Could Deepen Human Intuition by Nina Jablonski]] ### EDGE2015-083 — Tulips On My Robot's Tomb — Andrés Roemer > In order to achieve the dream for thinking machines, they will have to understand and question values, suffer internal conflicts, and experience intimacy. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Co-creator, Ideas City; Author, Move UP: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Tulips On My Robot's Tomb](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26167) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Thinking Machines Must Experience Values and Intimacy by Andrés Roemer|Thinking Machines Must Experience Values and Intimacy by Andrés Roemer]] ### EDGE2015-084 — A John Henry Moment — Andrian Kreye > One is the hope that a moment of singularity will awaken a synthetic spirit superior to the human mind. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [A John Henry Moment](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26166) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Civilization/The Singularity Promises a Synthetic Spirit Beyond the Human Mind by Andrian Kreye|The Singularity Promises a Synthetic Spirit Beyond the Human Mind by Andrian Kreye]] ### EDGE2015-085 — Context Surely Matters — Paul Dolan > There are plenty of conscious (system two) processes that a machine can do better, more accurately, with less bias than we can. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Author, Happy Ever After - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Context Surely Matters](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26165) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines Can Outperform Conscious Human Reasoning by Paul Dolan|Machines Can Outperform Conscious Human Reasoning by Paul Dolan]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-086 — It Depends — Robert Sapolsky > What do I think about machines that think? Well, of course it depends on who that person is. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [It Depends](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26164) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/It Depends on Who the Thinking Machine Is by Robert Sapolsky|It Depends on Who the Thinking Machine Is by Robert Sapolsky]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-087 — What, Me Worry? — Lawrence M. Krauss > I envisage the human-computer interface as like having a helpful partner, and the more intelligent machines become the more helpful they can be partners. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, ASU; Author, The Greatest Story Ever Told . . . So Far - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What, Me Worry?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26163) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Human-Computer Interfaces Could Become Helpful Partners by Lawrence M. Krauss|Human-Computer Interfaces Could Become Helpful Partners by Lawrence M. Krauss]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact ### EDGE2015-088 — Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future — Martin Rees > Few doubt that machines will surpass more and more of our distinctively human capabilities—or enhance them via cyborg technology. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College; Author, From Here to Infinity - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26160) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Machines Will Surpass More Human Capabilities by Martin Rees|Machines Will Surpass More Human Capabilities by Martin Rees]] ### EDGE2015-089 — "Turing+" Questions — Tomaso Poggio > In summary, research on intelligence will help us understand the human mind and brain, build more intelligent machines, and improve the mechanisms for collective decisions. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Director of NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** ["Turing+" Questions](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26158) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Intelligence Research Will Reveal Mind and Brain by Tomaso Poggio|Intelligence Research Will Reveal Mind and Brain by Tomaso Poggio]] ### EDGE2015-090 — Will They Make Us Better People? — Stuart Russell > I suppose this amounts to a change in the goals of AI: instead of pure intelligence, we need to build intelligence that is provably aligned with human values. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `hypothesis` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Computer Science, Director, Center for Intelligent Systems, Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley; Author (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Will They Make Us Better People?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26157) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Intelligence Must Be Provably Aligned With Human Values by Stuart Russell|Intelligence Must Be Provably Aligned With Human Values by Stuart Russell]] ### EDGE2015-091 — Machines That Think? NUTS — Stuart A. Kauffman > All art is metaphoric, language started gestural or metaphoric, we live by these, not merely by true false propositions and the syllogisms they enable. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy, University of Calgary; Author, Reinventing the Sacred - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines That Think? NUTS](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26156) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Human Thought Lives Beyond True-False Logic by Stuart A. Kauffman|Human Thought Lives Beyond True-False Logic by Stuart A. Kauffman]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-092 — What is "To Think"? — Helen Fisher > Anthropologists use the term symbolic thinking to describe the human ability to arbitrarily bestow an abstract concept upon the concrete world. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Love - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What is "To Think"?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26155) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Symbolic Thinking Makes Abstract Concepts Concrete by Helen Fisher|Symbolic Thinking Makes Abstract Concepts Concrete by Helen Fisher]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-093 — A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind — Irene Pepperberg > Machines can beat humans at chess—but they have yet to design the type of mind game that will intrigue humans for centuries. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex & Me - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26154) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Can Win Without Inventing the Game by Irene Pepperberg|Machines Can Win Without Inventing the Game by Irene Pepperberg]] ### EDGE2015-094 — What If We Are the MicroBiome of the Silicon AI? — Tim O'Reilly > AI that we will confront is not going to be a mind in an individual machine. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What If We Are the MicroBiome of the Silicon AI?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26153) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Intelligence Will Not Live in One Machine by Tim O'Reilly|Artificial Intelligence Will Not Live in One Machine by Tim O'Reilly]] ### EDGE2015-095 — Landscapes — Douglas Rushkoff > Rather than machines that think, I believe we are migrating toward a networked environment in which thinking is no longer a individual activity, nor bound by time and space. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `hypothesis` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Landscapes](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26152) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Digital Life/Intelligence Is Migrating Into a Networked Environment by Douglas Rushkoff|Intelligence Is Migrating Into a Networked Environment by Douglas Rushkoff]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-096 — "Designed Intelligence" (DI) — Paul Davies > Designed Intelligence will increasingly rely on synthetic biology and organic fabrication, in which neural circuitry will be grown from genetically modified cells, and spontaneously self-assemble into networks of functional modules. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-Director of BEYOND, Arizona State University; principle investigator, Center for the Convergence of Physical Sciences and Cancer Biology; Author, The Eerie Silence and The Cosmic Jackpot - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `consciousness_and_identity`, `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** ["Designed Intelligence" (DI)](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26151) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Designed Intelligence Will Grow From Synthetic Biology by Paul Davies|Designed Intelligence Will Grow From Synthetic Biology by Paul Davies]] ### EDGE2015-097 — Analog...The Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name — George Dyson > I suspect that digital computers, too, may eventually start to think, but only by growing up to become analog computers, first. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Science Historian; Author, Analogia - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Analog...The Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26150) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Digital Computers May Need to Become Analog to Think by George Dyson|Digital Computers May Need to Become Analog to Think by George Dyson]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact ### EDGE2015-098 — Is Anyone In Charge Of This Thing? — David Christian > As organisms got more complex, cells networked to create towering organic structures, the biological equivalents of the Empire State Building or the Burj Khalifa. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor in History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Origin Story - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting` - **Source:** [Is Anyone In Charge Of This Thing?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26149) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Complex Organisms Are Networks of Cells by David Christian|Complex Organisms Are Networks of Cells by David Christian]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-099 — Beyond "The Uncanny Valley" — Joichi Ito > Ideally, our educational system will evolve to more fully embrace our uniquely human strengths, rather than trying to shape us into second-rate machines. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Director, MIT Media Lab; Coauthor (with Jeff Howe), Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Beyond "The Uncanny Valley"](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26148) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Education Should Cultivate Human Strengths Instead of Machine Imitation by Joichi Ito|Education Should Cultivate Human Strengths Instead of Machine Imitation by Joichi Ito]] ### EDGE2015-100 — Human Culture As The First Artificial Intelligence — Nicholas A. Christakis > Culture applies its own logic, has a memory, endures after its makers are gone, can be repurposed in supple ways, and can induce action. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University; Co-author, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives - **Trajectories:** `memory_and_persistence`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Human Culture As The First Artificial Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26147) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Memory/Culture Has Memory Beyond Its Makers by Nicholas A. Christakis|Culture Has Memory Beyond Its Makers by Nicholas A. Christakis]] ### EDGE2015-101 — Machines Aren't Thinking "About" Anything — Edward Slingerland > What is scary as hell is the idea an entity possessed of extra-human intelligence and speed and our motivational system—in other words, human beings equipped with access to powerful AI systems. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition, University of British Columbia; Author, Drunk - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Machines Aren't Thinking "About" Anything](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26146) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Human Motives Plus Extra-Human Intelligence Are the Real Danger by Edward Slingerland|Human Motives Plus Extra-Human Intelligence Are the Real Danger by Edward Slingerland]] ### EDGE2015-102 — Thinking Machines Are About Communication — Sheizaf Rafaeli > Machines will think when they communicate. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor, Director, The Center for Internet Research, University of Haifa, Israel - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking Machines Are About Communication](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26144) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Will Think When They Communicate by Sheizaf Rafaeli|Machines Will Think When They Communicate by Sheizaf Rafaeli]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-103 — We Are All Machines That Think — Sean Carroll > From the other side, neuroscientists and engineers are getting much better at augmenting human cognition, breaking down the barrier between mind and (artificial) machine. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply Hidden - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [We Are All Machines That Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26143) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Neuroscience Is Dissolving the Human-Machine Barrier by Sean Carroll|Neuroscience Is Dissolving the Human-Machine Barrier by Sean Carroll]] ### EDGE2015-104 — Machines That Think — Mary Catherine Bateson > The effort to build machines that can think is certain to make us aware of aspects of thought that are not yet fully understood. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting Scholar, Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College; Author, Composing a Further Life - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines That Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26135) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Building Thinking Machines Reveals Thought Itself by Mary Catherine Bateson|Building Thinking Machines Reveals Thought Itself by Mary Catherine Bateson]] ### EDGE2015-105 — The Next Replicator — Susan Blackmore > I think that from being a little independent thinking machine I am becoming a tiny part inside a far vaster thinking machine. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [The Next Replicator](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26041) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Simulation/We Are Becoming Parts of a Larger Thinking Machine by Susan Blackmore|We Are Becoming Parts of a Larger Thinking Machine by Susan Blackmore]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact ### EDGE2015-106 — Machines That Work Until They Don't — Barbara Strauch > I worry that, by relying on my map app, I am letting my own brain go feeble. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain; The Primal Teen - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines That Work Until They Don't](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26140) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Navigation Apps May Be Weakening Our Brains by Barbara Strauch|Navigation Apps May Be Weakening Our Brains by Barbara Strauch]] ### EDGE2015-107 — Doing Justice To Machines In An "Organicist" World — Steve Fuller > From the design of roads and buildings to the user-friendly features of consumer goods, the technologically extended phenotype has created the illusion that reality is inherently human-shaped. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick; Author, The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Doing Justice To Machines In An "Organicist" World](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26139) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Technology Makes Reality Seem Human-Shaped by Steve Fuller|Technology Makes Reality Seem Human-Shaped by Steve Fuller]] ### EDGE2015-108 — This Sounds Like Heaven — Virginia Heffernan > But letting machines do the thinking for us? This sounds like heaven. Thinking is optional. Thinking is suffering. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director, West Studios; Author, Magic and Loss - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [This Sounds Like Heaven](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26138) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Let Machines Do the Thinking by Virginia Heffernan|Let Machines Do the Thinking by Virginia Heffernan]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-109 — Shallow Learning — Seth Lloyd > Now we are told that an exascale supercomputer will be able to solve the mysteries of the human brain. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author, Programming the Universe - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Shallow Learning](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26137) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Exascale Computing May Confront the Human Brain by Seth Lloyd|Exascale Computing May Confront the Human Brain by Seth Lloyd]] ### EDGE2015-110 — AI Will Make Us Smart And Robots Afraid — Alun Anderson > What we have learned about the evolution of our intelligence adds to our fears. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist; Author, After the Ice - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [AI Will Make Us Smart And Robots Afraid](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26136) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Understanding Human Evolution Can Intensify Fear of AI by Alun Anderson|Understanding Human Evolution Can Intensify Fear of AI by Alun Anderson]] ### EDGE2015-111 — An Uncanny Three-Ring Test For "Machina Sapiens" — Kai Krause > If true consciousness may emerge—let's be clear what that could entail: If the machine is truly aware—it will by definition develop "a personality". - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime Literature Explorer - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [An Uncanny Three-Ring Test For "Machina Sapiens"](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26133) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Conscious Machines Will Develop Personalities by Kai Krause|Conscious Machines Will Develop Personalities by Kai Krause]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-112 — Don't Just Think, Feel — Timo Hannay > Machine intelligence, while impressive in certain areas, is still narrow and inflexible. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci Foo Camp - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Don't Just Think, Feel](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26131) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machine Intelligence Is Still Narrow and Inflexible by Timo Hannay|Machine Intelligence Is Still Narrow and Inflexible by Timo Hannay]] ### EDGE2015-113 — A Crisis of Control — Nicholas G. Carr > As individuals and as a society, we increasingly depend on artificial-intelligence algorithms that we don't understand. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Author, Utopia is Creepy - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [A Crisis of Control](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26130) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/We Depend on Algorithms We Do Not Understand by Nicholas G. Carr|We Depend on Algorithms We Do Not Understand by Nicholas G. Carr]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-114 — Between Regular-I And AI — Roger Highfield > Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched the Restoring Active Memory program to reverse damage caused by a brain injury with neuroprosthetics that sense memory deficits and restore normal function. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author (with Martin Nowak), SuperCooperators - **Trajectories:** `memory_and_persistence`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Between Regular-I And AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26129) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Memory/Neuroprosthetics Can Restore Damaged Memory by Roger Highfield|Neuroprosthetics Can Restore Damaged Memory by Roger Highfield]] ### EDGE2015-115 — Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken — Kevin Slavin > For as long as thinking machines lack the limbic presence and imprecision of a chicken, computers will keep doing what they're so good at: providing answers. And so long as life is about more than answers, humans—and yes, even chickens—will stay in the loop. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Assistant Professor and Founder, Playful Systems, MIT Media Lab - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26124) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Life Requires More Than Machine Answers by Kevin Slavin|Life Requires More Than Machine Answers by Kevin Slavin]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-116 — Robodoctors Could Provide Better Psychology, Not Just Technology — Gerd Gigerenzer > Making people think is the best that a machine can achieve. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Author, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Robodoctors Could Provide Better Psychology, Not Just Technology](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26123) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Making People Think Is a Machine’s Highest Achievement by Gerd Gigerenzer|Making People Think Is a Machine’s Highest Achievement by Gerd Gigerenzer]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-117 — Killer Thinking Machines Keep Human Consciences Clean — Kurt Gray > To keep clean our consciences, we need only to create a thinking machine, and then vilify it. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Co-author (with Daniel Wegner), The Mind Club - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Killer Thinking Machines Keep Human Consciences Clean](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26122) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking Machines Can Launder Human Conscience by Kurt Gray|Thinking Machines Can Launder Human Conscience by Kurt Gray]] ### EDGE2015-118 — Thinking Saltmarshes — Ursula Martin > One can picture and debate a thinking machine to augment the experience of our solitary walker. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking Saltmarshes](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26120) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking Machines Could Augment Solitary Experience by Ursula Martin|Thinking Machines Could Augment Solitary Experience by Ursula Martin]] ### EDGE2015-119 — It's Going To Be A Wild Ride — John C. Mather > The advantages for space exploration are obvious: machines we build don't have to breathe, and they can withstand extreme temperatures and radiation environments. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Nobel Prize in Physics; Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Coauthor (with John Boslough), The Very First Light - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [It's Going To Be A Wild Ride](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26119) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Space Survival/Machines Can Survive Where Humans Cannot by John C. Mather|Machines Can Survive Where Humans Cannot by John C. Mather]] ### EDGE2015-120 — Machines Will Always Lack Feeling Or Emotion — Gerald Smallberg > My experience as a clinical neurologist makes me partial to believing that we will be unable to read machines' thoughts, but also they will be incapable of reading ours. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off Broadway Productions, Charter Members; The Gold Ring - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines Will Always Lack Feeling Or Emotion](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26118) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines May Never Read Human Thoughts by Gerald Smallberg|Machines May Never Read Human Thoughts by Gerald Smallberg]] ### EDGE2015-121 — "Naches" from our Machines — Samuel Arbesman > We can respond similarly to our future technological creations, these thinking machines we might not fully understand. Rather than fear or worry, we should have naches from them. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital; Author, Overcomplicated - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** ["Naches" from our Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26117) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/We Should Take Pride in Alien Machine Intelligence by Samuel Arbesman|We Should Take Pride in Alien Machine Intelligence by Samuel Arbesman]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-122 — The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here — Alex "Sandy" Pentland > Perhaps instead of elaborating traditional governance structures with digital prosthetics, we will develop a new, better types of digital democracy. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs; Author, Social Physics - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26113) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial Intelligence Could Enable Digital Democracy by Alex Pentland|Artificial Intelligence Could Enable Digital Democracy by Alex Pentland]] ### EDGE2015-123 — Will Thinking Machines Evolve To Be As Wonderful As Dogs? — Randolph Nesse > However, until our brains coevolve with machines, our preferences will be the selection force. The machines that best satisfy them will evolve further, not to some singularity, but to become partners who fulfill our desires, for better or worse. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019), Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University; Author, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Will Thinking Machines Evolve To Be As Wonderful As Dogs?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26111) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Machines Will Evolve to Fulfill Human Desires by Randolph Nesse|Machines Will Evolve to Fulfill Human Desires by Randolph Nesse]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-124 — eGaia—A Distributed Technical-Social Mental System — Marti Hearst > Brain-machine interfaces continue to be improved, initially for physically impaired people, but eventually to provide a seamless boundary between people and the monitoring network. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information; Author, Search User Interfaces - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [eGaia—A Distributed Technical-Social Mental System](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26109) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Brain Interfaces May Dissolve Into the Monitoring Network by Marti Hearst|Brain Interfaces May Dissolve Into the Monitoring Network by Marti Hearst]] ### EDGE2015-125 — Machines Think but Don't Want, and Hence Aren't Dangerous — Roy Baumeister > Machine thinking is not motivated by any innate drive to sustain a machine's life (though machine thinking probably serves to improve human life!). - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University; Author, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines Think but Don't Want, and Hence Aren't Dangerous](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26282) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Machine Thinking Has No Innate Will to Survive by Roy Baumeister|Machine Thinking Has No Innate Will to Survive by Roy Baumeister]] ### EDGE2015-126 — Thinking About Thinking Machines — Thomas A. Bass > It is time for our thinking machines to grow out of an adolescence that has lasted now for sixty years. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of English and Journalism, State University of New York, Albany; Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved US - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking About Thinking Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26108) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking Machines Must Grow Beyond Adolescence by Thomas A. Bass|Thinking Machines Must Grow Beyond Adolescence by Thomas A. Bass]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-127 — AI's Will Save Us All — Frank Tipler > A human download can think as fast as an AI, and compete with AI's if the human download wants too. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University; Coauthor (with John Barrow), The Anthropic Cosmological Principle - **Trajectories:** `memory_and_persistence`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [AI's Will Save Us All](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26107) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Mind Upload/Human Downloads Could Compete With AI by Frank Tipler|Human Downloads Could Compete With AI by Frank Tipler]] ### EDGE2015-128 — Manipulators and Manipulanda — Joshua Bongard > Machines instructed to "educate this recently displaced worker (or young person) the best way possible" will create jobs and possibly inspire the next generation. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont Author, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Manipulators and Manipulanda](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26106) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Could Educate Displaced Workers by Joshua Bongard|Machines Could Educate Displaced Workers by Joshua Bongard]] ### EDGE2015-129 — Are We Thinking More Like Machines That Think? — Ziyad Marar > It is not that thinking machines will be emulating human minds any time soon: quite the reverse. We are cleaning up our acts, embarrassed by the fumbling inconclusiveness of messy thinking. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** President of Global Publishing, SAGE; Author, Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Are We Thinking More Like Machines That Think?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26105) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humans May Be Learning to Think Like Machines by Ziyad Marar|Humans May Be Learning to Think Like Machines by Ziyad Marar]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-130 — Intelligent Machines—On Earth And Beyond — Mario Livio > Consequently, if life on exoplanets is not extremely uncommon, we could discover some form of extrasolar life within about 30 years. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Astrophysicist; Author, Why?: What Makes Us Curious - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Intelligent Machines—On Earth And Beyond](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26104) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Space Survival/We May Discover Extrasolar Life Within Thirty Years by Mario Livio|We May Discover Extrasolar Life Within Thirty Years by Mario Livio]] ### EDGE2015-131 — A Cultural Context — Daniel L. Everett > Artificial Intelligence may one day become less artificial by recreating bodies, emotions, social roles, values, and so on. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University; Author, How Language Began - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [A Cultural Context](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26103) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/AI May Recreate Bodies Emotions and Social Roles by Daniel L. Everett|AI May Recreate Bodies Emotions and Social Roles by Daniel L. Everett]] ### EDGE2015-132 — Humanness — Douglas Coupland > People assume that AI or machines that think will have intelligence that is alien to our own, but that's not possible. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist in Residence - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Humanness](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26102) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Alien to Human Intelligence by Douglas Coupland|Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Alien to Human Intelligence by Douglas Coupland]] ### EDGE2015-133 — Yes, But — Neil Gershenfeld > Something about discussion of artificial intelligence appears to displace human intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Co-author, Designing Reality - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Yes, But](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26101) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/AI Debate Can Displace Human Intelligence by Neil Gershenfeld|AI Debate Can Displace Human Intelligence by Neil Gershenfeld]] ### EDGE2015-134 — Do Machines Do? — Martin Seligman > Humans spend between 25% and 50% of our mental life prospecting the future. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Flourish - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Do Machines Do?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26100) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humans Spend Half Their Mental Lives in the Future by Martin Seligman|Humans Spend Half Their Mental Lives in the Future by Martin Seligman]] ### EDGE2015-135 — Leveraging Human Intelligence — Keith Devlin > Leveraging human intelligence is all well and good if the robot is used to clean the house, book your airline tickets, or drive your car. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford; Author, Finding Fibonacci - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Leveraging Human Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26099) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Human Intelligence Should Not Be Reduced to Serving Robots by Keith Devlin|Human Intelligence Should Not Be Reduced to Serving Robots by Keith Devlin]] ### EDGE2015-136 — Call Them Artificial Aliens — Kevin Kelly > I believe our first answer will be: humans are for inventing new kinds of intelligences that biology could not evolve. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and The Inevitable - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Call Them Artificial Aliens](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26097) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Humans Invent Intelligences Biology Could Not Evolve by Kevin Kelly|Humans Invent Intelligences Biology Could Not Evolve by Kevin Kelly]] - **Editorial notes:** source contains first-person forecasting; label as prediction rather than fact ### EDGE2015-137 — No Machine Has Ever Thought About The Eternal Questions — Leo M. Chalupa > The only viable approach to construct a machine that has the attributes of the human brain is to copy the neuronal circuits underlying thinking. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [No Machine Has Ever Thought About The Eternal Questions](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26094) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Humanlike Machines Must Copy Neuronal Circuits by Leo M. Chalupa|Humanlike Machines Must Copy Neuronal Circuits by Leo M. Chalupa]] ### EDGE2015-138 — Thinking Machines — Bruce Sterling > One of my many objections to "Artificial Intelligence" is its stark lack of any "Artificial Femininity." Real intelligence has gender, because human brains do. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Science Fiction Author, Mirrorshades - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26093) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Identity/Artificial Intelligence Lacks Artificial Femininity by Bruce Sterling|Artificial Intelligence Lacks Artificial Femininity by Bruce Sterling]] ### EDGE2015-139 — Amplifiers/Implementers Of Consciously-Directed Human Choices — D.A. Wallach > More likely, advancing computers and algorithms will stand for nothing, and will be the amplifiers and implementers of consciously-directed human choices. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spotify - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Amplifiers/Implementers Of Consciously-Directed Human Choices](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26092) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Algorithms Will Amplify Human Choices by D.A. Wallach|Algorithms Will Amplify Human Choices by D.A. Wallach]] ### EDGE2015-140 — What If They Need To Suffer? — Thomas Metzinger > Through this step, negative preferences become negative subjective preferences, i.e., the conscious representation that one's own preferences have been frustrated (or will be frustrated in the future). - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study; Author, The Ego Tunnel - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity` - **Source:** [What If They Need To Suffer?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26091) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Conscious Machines May Suffer by Thomas Metzinger|Conscious Machines May Suffer by Thomas Metzinger]] ### EDGE2015-141 — An Extraterrestrial Observation About Human Hubris — Ernst Pöppel > Taken together there is nothing like "intelligence" which can be extracted as a precise concept and which can be used as a reference for "artificial intelligence". - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany; Guest Professor, Peking University, China - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [An Extraterrestrial Observation About Human Hubris](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26090) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Intelligence May Be Too Imprecise to Artificially Reproduce by Ernst Pöppel|Intelligence May Be Too Imprecise to Artificially Reproduce by Ernst Pöppel]] ### EDGE2015-142 — It's Not About The Human Species: It's About Civilizations — Luca De Biase > An artificial intelligence is coordinating the efforts of a sort of collective intelligence, operating thousands times faster than human brains, with many consequences for human life. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [It's Not About The Human Species: It's About Civilizations](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26089) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Artificial Intelligence Could Coordinate Collective Intelligence by Luca De Biase|Artificial Intelligence Could Coordinate Collective Intelligence by Luca De Biase]] ### EDGE2015-143 — Human Responsibility For Machines That Think — Margaret Levi > Competition is more likely to create than inhibit echo chambers of self-reinforcing beliefs and understandings. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, professor, Stanford University; Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies, University of Washington - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Human Responsibility For Machines That Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26088) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Competition Creates Self-Reinforcing Echo Chambers by Margaret Levi|Competition Creates Self-Reinforcing Echo Chambers by Margaret Levi]] ### EDGE2015-144 — Artificial Intelligence Will Make You Smarter — Terrence J. Sejnowski > The big question back then was how much the performance of neural networks could improve with the size and depth of the network. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-author (with Patricia Churchland), The Computational Brain - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Artificial Intelligence Will Make You Smarter](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26087) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Neural Networks Scale With Size and Depth by Terrence J. Sejnowski|Neural Networks Scale With Size and Depth by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ### EDGE2015-145 — Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds? — Alison Gopnik > Computation is still the best, indeed the only, scientific explanation we have of how a physical object like a brain can act intelligently. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26084) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/Computation Is Our Best Explanation of Intelligent Brains by Alison Gopnik|Computation Is Our Best Explanation of Intelligent Brains by Alison Gopnik]] ### EDGE2015-146 — Who's Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? — Richard H. Thaler > More disturbing to me is the stubborn reluctance in many segments of society to allow computers to take over tasks that simple models perform demonstrably better than humans. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science; Director, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Author, Misbehaving - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Who's Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26083) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Computers Already Make Better Routine Decisions by Richard H. Thaler|Computers Already Make Better Routine Decisions by Richard H. Thaler]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-147 — I Think That Machines Can't Think — Emanuel Derman > From this point of view therefore, as long as I understand the material explanation of a machine's behavior, I will argue that it doesn't think. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University; Author, Models.Behaving.Badly - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [I Think That Machines Can't Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26082) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Identity/Explaining a Machine’s Behavior Does Not Prove It Thinks by Emanuel Derman|Explaining a Machine’s Behavior Does Not Prove It Thinks by Emanuel Derman]] ### EDGE2015-148 — Another Kind Of Diversity — Stephen M. Kosslyn > Far AIs should be created to educate themselves, evolving to function in their environments effectively without human guidance or contact. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Another Kind Of Diversity](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26081) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Artificial Aliens Should Evolve Without Human Guidance by Stephen M. Kosslyn|Artificial Aliens Should Evolve Without Human Guidance by Stephen M. Kosslyn]] ### EDGE2015-149 — Two Cognitive Functions That Machines Still Lack — Stanislas Dehaene > Rather, the brain of all mammals incorporates a long-distance information sharing system that breaks the modularity of brain areas and allows them to broadcast information globally. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We Learn - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Two Cognitive Functions That Machines Still Lack](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26080) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/Mammalian Brains Broadcast Information Globally by Stanislas Dehaene|Mammalian Brains Broadcast Information Globally by Stanislas Dehaene]] ### EDGE2015-150 — What Neuroscience And Machine Models Of The Mind Should Be Looking For — Scott Atran > Machines can faithfully imitate the results of some human thought processes whose outcomes are fixed (remembering people's favorite movies, recognizing familiar objects) or dynamic (jet piloting, grand master chess play). - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Anthropologist; Emeritus Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris; Co-Founder, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, University of Oxford; Author, Talking to the Enemy - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What Neuroscience And Machine Models Of The Mind Should Be Looking For](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26079) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Memory/Machines Can Imitate Fixed and Dynamic Human Thought by Scott Atran|Machines Can Imitate Fixed and Dynamic Human Thought by Scott Atran]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-151 — Our Concept Of Nature — Lee Smolin > The construction of an artificial mind then probably has to wait until we understand better, in physical terms, what a mind is. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - **Trajectories:** `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Our Concept Of Nature](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26077) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Artificial Minds Must Wait for a Physical Theory of Mind by Lee Smolin|Artificial Minds Must Wait for a Physical Theory of Mind by Lee Smolin]] ### EDGE2015-152 — Thinking Machines And Ennui — Richard Nisbett > We really have to worry that there will be a devastating morale problem for us when any work we might do can be done better by machines. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author, Thinking: A Memoir - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Thinking Machines And Ennui](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26076) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Better Machines Could Destroy the Meaning of Work by Richard Nisbett|Better Machines Could Destroy the Meaning of Work by Richard Nisbett]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-153 — What Do I Think About Machines That Think? — Gordon Kane > But the true role of data is to confirm which answers are the correct ones. If some physicist, or some machine, figures it out they have no way to convince anyone else they have the actual answer. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theoretical Particle Physicist and Cosmologist; Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan; Author, Supersymmetry and Beyond - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [What Do I Think About Machines That Think?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26075) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane|Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-154 — The Great AI Swindle — Dylan Evans > In other words, beware not so much of machines that think, but of their self-appointed masters. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia Experiment - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [The Great AI Swindle](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26073) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Fear the Masters of Thinking Machines by Dylan Evans|Fear the Masters of Thinking Machines by Dylan Evans]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-155 — A New Wisdom of the Body — Eric Topol > Almost any medical condition with an acute episode—like an asthma attack, seizure, autoimmune attack, stroke, heart attack—will be potentially predictable in the future with artificial intelligence and the Internet of all medical things. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science Institute; Author, The Patient Will See You Now - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [A New Wisdom of the Body](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26072) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Digital Life/AI May Predict Medical Crises Before They Happen by Eric Topol|AI May Predict Medical Crises Before They Happen by Eric Topol]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-156 — What Will Be The Place Of Humans In A World Occupied By An Exponentially Growing Population Of Autonomous Machines — Paul Saffo > The rapid advance of AIs also is changing our understanding of what constitutes intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [What Will Be The Place Of Humans In A World Occupied By An Exponentially Growing Population Of Autonomous Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26071) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/AI Is Changing What Intelligence Means by Paul Saffo|AI Is Changing What Intelligence Means by Paul Saffo]] ### EDGE2015-157 — We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence — Melanie Swan > The social construct of identity includes the property of imperfect human memory that allows the possibility of forgiving and forgetting, and redemption and reinvention. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social Research - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `memory_and_persistence`, `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26070) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Memory/Imperfect Memory Makes Reinvention Possible by Melanie Swan|Imperfect Memory Makes Reinvention Possible by Melanie Swan]] ### EDGE2015-158 — He Who Pays The AI, Calls The Tune — Ross Anderson > What's changing as computers become embedded invisibly everywhere is that we all now leave a digital trail that can be analysed by AI systems. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [He Who Pays The AI, Calls The Tune](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26069) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/Embedded Computers Leave Trails for AI to Analyze by Ross Anderson|Embedded Computers Leave Trails for AI to Analyze by Ross Anderson]] ### EDGE2015-159 — The Rise of Storytelling Machines — Jonathan Gottschall > Aspiring writers are told to immerse themselves in great stories to gradually develop a deep, not necessarily conscious, sense for how they work. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department, Washington & Jefferson College; Author, The Storytelling Animal - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [The Rise of Storytelling Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26068) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Storytelling Machines Could Learn by Immersion by Jonathan Gottschall|Storytelling Machines Could Learn by Immersion by Jonathan Gottschall]] ### EDGE2015-160 — What Does Thinking About Thinking Machines Tell Us About Human Beings? — Satyajit Das > Techno-optimists believe that progress is near a singularity, the hypothetical moment when machines will reach the point of a greater-than-human intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [What Does Thinking About Thinking Machines Tell Us About Human Beings?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26067) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Singularity Is a Hypothesis About Greater-Than-Human Intelligence by Satyajit Das|The Singularity Is a Hypothesis About Greater-Than-Human Intelligence by Satyajit Das]] ### EDGE2015-161 — When Is A Minion Not A Minion? — Aubrey de Grey > I could end with a simple "So let's not create aware machines"—but any possible technology that anyone thinks is desirable will eventually be developed, so it's not that simple. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation; Author, Ending Aging - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [When Is A Minion Not A Minion?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26066) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Desirable Technologies Will Eventually Be Built by Aubrey de Grey|Desirable Technologies Will Eventually Be Built by Aubrey de Grey]] ### EDGE2015-162 — Enhancing The Cognitive Capacity Of Our 7 Billion Thinking Machines — Giulio Boccaletti > We have been wildly successful at accelerating our ability to think and process information, more so than any other human activity. The promise of artificial intelligence is to deliver another leap in increasing the productivity of specific cognitive functions: ones where the sophistication of the task is also orders of magnitude higher than previously possible. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author, Water: A Biography - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Enhancing The Cognitive Capacity Of Our 7 Billion Thinking Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26065) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/AI Could Multiply Human Cognitive Productivity by Giulio Boccaletti|AI Could Multiply Human Cognitive Productivity by Giulio Boccaletti]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-163 — We Will Become One — Clifford Pickover > In the future, when our minds merge with artificial agents and also integrate various electronic prostheses, for each of our own real lives, we will create multiple simulated lives. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book trilogy - **Trajectories:** `neural_interfaces_and_augmentation` - **Source:** [We Will Become One](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26064) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Simulation/Merged Minds Could Live Multiple Simulated Lives by Clifford Pickover|Merged Minds Could Live Multiple Simulated Lives by Clifford Pickover]] ### EDGE2015-164 — The Colossus Is A BFG — Nicholas Humphrey > However there's no question the time is coming when machines will indeed need to understand other machines' psychology, so as to be able to work alongside them. What's more, if they are to collaborate effectively with humans, they will need to understand human psychology too. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics; Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities; Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge; Author, Soul Dust - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [The Colossus Is A BFG](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26063) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Must Understand Human Psychology by Nicholas Humphrey|Machines Must Understand Human Psychology by Nicholas Humphrey]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-165 — When It Comes To AI, Think Protopia, Not Utopia Or Dystopia — Michael Shermer > Most such prophecies are grounded in a false analogy between human nature and computer nature, or natural intelligence and artificial intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific American; Presidential Fellow, Chapman University; Author, Heavens on Earth - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [When It Comes To AI, Think Protopia, Not Utopia Or Dystopia](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26062) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/When It Comes To AI, Think Protopia, Not Utopia Or Dystopia by Michael Shermer|When It Comes To AI, Think Protopia, Not Utopia Or Dystopia by Michael Shermer]] ### EDGE2015-166 — The Beasts of A.I. Island — Quentin Hardy > We are building new intelligent beings, but we are building them within ourselves. It is only artificial now, because it is new. As it becomes dominant, it will simply become intelligence. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Deputy Technology Editor, The New York Times; Former Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley's School of Information - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [The Beasts of A.I. Island](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26061) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Intelligence Is Being Built Inside Us by Quentin Hardy|Artificial Intelligence Is Being Built Inside Us by Quentin Hardy]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-167 — Machines (Humanly Constructed Artifacts) Cannot Think — Arnold Trehub > Machines (humanly constructed artifacts) cannot think because no machine has a point of view; that is, a unique perspective on the worldly referents of its internal symbolic logic. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author, The Cognitive Brain - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Machines (Humanly Constructed Artifacts) Cannot Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26060) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Identity/Machines Cannot Think Without a Point of View by Arnold Trehub|Machines Cannot Think Without a Point of View by Arnold Trehub]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-168 — The Limits Of Biological Intelligence — Chris DiBona > If humans show real machine-like intelligence, do they deserve to be treated like machines? - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `question` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Open Source and Public Sector, Google - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [The Limits Of Biological Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26059) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Identity/Should Humans With Machine Intelligence Be Treated Like Machines by Chris DiBona|Should Humans With Machine Intelligence Be Treated Like Machines by Chris DiBona]] - **Editorial notes:** question form; use only if the poster is intentionally interrogative; conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-169 — Head Transplants? — Juan Enriquez > Building consciousness from scratch implies following a new and very different evolutionary path to that of human intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (with Steve Gullans), Evolving Ourselves - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [Head Transplants?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26058) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Machine Consciousness May Require a Different Evolutionary Path by Juan Enriquez|Machine Consciousness May Require a Different Evolutionary Path by Juan Enriquez]] ### EDGE2015-170 — Mistaking Performance For Competence Misleads Estimates Of AI's 21st Century Promise And Danger — Rodney A. Brooks > A human player can make generalizations and describe why certain types of moves are good, and use that to teach a human player. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (1997-2007); Founder, CTO, Robust.AI; Author, Flesh and Machines - **Trajectories:** `biological_and_synthetic_hosting`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Mistaking Performance For Competence Misleads Estimates Of AI's 21st Century Promise And Danger](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26057) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Risk Debate/Mistaking Performance For Competence Misleads Estimates Of AIs 21st Century Promise And Danger by Rodney A. Brooks|Mistaking Performance For Competence Misleads Estimates Of AIs 21st Century Promise And Danger by Rodney A. Brooks]] ### EDGE2015-171 — Thinking About People Who Think Like Machines — Haim Harari > Some prominent scientific gurus are scared by a world controlled by thinking machines. I am not sure that this is a valid fear. I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines, a major emerging trend of our digital society. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science; Author, A View from the Eye of the Storm - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Thinking About People Who Think Like Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26056) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Fear People Who Think Like Machines by Haim Harari|Fear People Who Think Like Machines by Haim Harari]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-172 — Ask Not Can Machines Think, Ask How Machines Fit Into The Mechanisms We Design — Peter Norvig > If AI systems act on their own, they can make errors that perhaps would not be made by a system with a human in the loop. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Director of Research, Google Inc.; Fellow of the AAAI and the ACM; co-author, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Ask Not Can Machines Think, Ask How Machines Fit Into The Mechanisms We Design](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26055) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Autonomous AI Can Make Errors Humans Would Avoid by Peter Norvig|Autonomous AI Can Make Errors Humans Would Avoid by Peter Norvig]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-173 — The Values Of Artificial Intelligence — S. Abbas Raza > The rumors of the enslavement or death of the human species at the hands of an artificial intelligence are highly exaggerated, because they assume that an AI will have a teleological autonomy akin to our own. I don't think anything less than a fully Darwinian process of evolution can give that to any creature. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com - **Trajectories:** `memory_and_persistence`, `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [The Values Of Artificial Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26050) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/Autonomy Requires Darwinian Evolution by S. Abbas Raza|Autonomy Requires Darwinian Evolution by S. Abbas Raza]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-174 — Can Submarines Swim? — William Poundstone > Of course, once you imagine machines with human-like feelings and free will, it's possible to conceive of misbehaving machine intelligence—the AI as Frankenstein idea. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Journalist; Author, How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?: Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want; Nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Can Submarines Swim?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26043) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Humanlike Feelings Make Machine Misbehavior Conceivable by William Poundstone|Humanlike Feelings Make Machine Misbehavior Conceivable by William Poundstone]] ### EDGE2015-175 — You Are What You Eat: Home-Grown A.I.s and the Big Data Food Chain — Andy Clark > A common theme in recent writings about machine intelligence is that the best new learning machines will constitute rather alien forms of intelligence. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Author, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [You Are What You Eat: Home-Grown A.I.s and the Big Data Food Chain](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26042) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Information/Learning Machines May Develop Alien Intelligence by Andy Clark|Learning Machines May Develop Alien Intelligence by Andy Clark]] ### EDGE2015-176 — Irrational Machines and Humans — Robert Provine > Thought experiments about these matters are the source of practical insights into human and machine behavior and suggest how to build different and better kinds of machines. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Author, Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Irrational Machines and Humans](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26040) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thought Experiments Can Build Better Machines by Robert Provine|Thought Experiments Can Build Better Machines by Robert Provine]] ### EDGE2015-177 — Three Observations on Artificial Intelligence — Frank Wilczek > Without careful restraint and tact, researchers could wake up to discover they've enabled the creation of armies of powerful, clever, vicious paranoiacs. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, Fundamentals - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [Three Observations on Artificial Intelligence](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26039) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/AI Researchers Could Create Armies of Paranoid Machines by Frank Wilczek|AI Researchers Could Create Armies of Paranoid Machines by Frank Wilczek]] ### EDGE2015-178 — Machines That Can Think Will Do More Good Than Harm — Mark Pagel > Were we to allow or even encourage self-interest to emerge in machines, they could eventually become like us: capable of repressive or worse, unspeakable, acts towards humans, and towards each other. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK; Fellow, Royal Society; Author, Wired for Culture - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity`, `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Machines That Can Think Will Do More Good Than Harm](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26038) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Self-Interested Machines Could Become Repressive by Mark Pagel|Self-Interested Machines Could Become Repressive by Mark Pagel]] ### EDGE2015-179 — Machines That Think Are In The Movies — Roger Schank > AI people try to build models of the parts we do understand. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Northwestern University; Author, Make School Meaningful-And Fun! - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [Machines That Think Are In The Movies](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26037) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/AI Models Only the Parts of Thought We Understand by Roger Schank|AI Models Only the Parts of Thought We Understand by Roger Schank]] ### EDGE2015-180 — Evolving AI — Donald D. Hoffman > As our computing resources expand and become better connected, more niches will appear in which AIs can reproduce, compete and evolve. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `prediction` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against Reality - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Evolving AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26036) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Evolution/AI Will Reproduce Compete and Evolve by Donald D. Hoffman|AI Will Reproduce Compete and Evolve by Donald D. Hoffman]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review ### EDGE2015-181 — The Singularity—an Urban Legend? — Daniel C. Dennett > The Singularity—the fateful moment when AI surpasses its creators in intelligence and takes over the world—is a meme worth pondering. - **Status:** `recommended_candidate` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, From Bacteria to Bach and Back - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `successor_intelligence_and_civilization` - **Source:** [The Singularity—an Urban Legend?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26035) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Singularity Is a Meme Worth Examining by Daniel C. Dennett|The Singularity Is a Meme Worth Examining by Daniel C. Dennett]] ### EDGE2015-182 — A Difficult Topic — Nick Bostrom > The most useful thing that we can do at this stage, in my opinion, is to boost the tiny but burgeoning field of research that focuses on the superintelligence control problem (studying questions such as how human values can be transferred to software). - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; Author, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - **Trajectories:** `successor_intelligence_and_civilization`, `governance_control_and_values` - **Source:** [A Difficult Topic](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26031) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/AI Control/Superintelligence Control Research Needs Our Best Minds by Nick Bostrom|Superintelligence Control Research Needs Our Best Minds by Nick Bostrom]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-183 — What Do You Care What Other Machines Think? — George Church > We can back-up petabytes of sili-brains perfectly in seconds, but transfer of information between carbo-brains takes decades and the similarity between the copies is barely recognizable. Some speculate that we could translate from carbo to sili, and even get the sili version to behave like the original. However, such a task requires much deeper understanding than merely making a copy. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome Project; Co-author (with Ed Regis), Regenesis - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence`, `epistemic_limits_and_dissent` - **Source:** [What Do You Care What Other Machines Think?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26027) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Mind Upload/Copying a Brain Requires More Than Copying Its Information by George Church|Copying a Brain Requires More Than Copying Its Information by George Church]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-184 — Just Other Natural Creatures Of A Natural World — Carlo Rovelli > If the right combination of chemicals can perform thinking and feeling emotions, and it does—the proof being ourselves—then sure there should be many other analogous mechanisms for doing the same. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `scientist_or_engineer` - **Credentials:** Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France; Author, Helgoland; There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness - **Trajectories:** `consciousness_and_identity` - **Source:** [Just Other Natural Creatures Of A Natural World](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26026) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Consciousness/Chemistry Proves Minds May Have Other Mechanisms by Carlo Rovelli|Chemistry Proves Minds May Have Other Mechanisms by Carlo Rovelli]] - **Editorial notes:** conditional or dependent opening; retain source context during final review; low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-185 — Nobody Would Ever Ask A Machine What It Thinks About Machines That Think — James J. O'Donnell > "Thinking" is a word we apply with no discipline whatsoever to a huge variety of reported behaviors. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `position` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [Nobody Would Ever Ask A Machine What It Thinks About Machines That Think](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26025) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/We Use Thinking Without Discipline by James J. O'Donnell|We Use Thinking Without Discipline by James J. O'Donnell]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation ### EDGE2015-186 — An Epochal Scientific, Technological, And Social—"Human"—Event — Pamela McCorduck > We've developed a new mind, to live side by side with ours. If we handle it wisely, it can bring immense benefits, from the planetary to the personal. - **Status:** `reserve_editorial_review` - **Class:** `possibility` - **Contributor type:** `notable_thought_leader` - **Credentials:** Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation - **Trajectories:** `machine_intelligence` - **Source:** [An Epochal Scientific, Technological, And Social—"Human"—Event](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26024) - **Reminder status:** Promoted — [[reminders/Machine Succession/A New Mind Could Bring Planetary Benefits by Pamela McCorduck|A New Mind Could Bring Planetary Benefits by Pamela McCorduck]] - **Editorial notes:** low automatic relevance score; requires manual editorial confirmation