We are as gods and have to get good at it.
- Stewart Brand
The shift from opportunistic predation to inviolate universal dignity is an epochal one, and arguably, it's one we now find ourselves making. However, it's only prudent to ask "What could go wrong? What could postpone the advent of a dignitarian world? Are we overlooking new threats to human dignity?"
Challenges
[Someday human intelligence] might be viewed as a historically interesting, albeit peripheral, special case of machine intelligence.
- Pierre Baldi
Futurists are warning that at some point during this century we'll be confronted with an unprecedented threat to what it means to be human--the advent of sophisticated thinking machines. It's one thing to use calculators that outperform us; it would be quite another to face machines manifesting supra-human intelligence. Picture a cute little gadget perched on your desk who, b
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Futurists are warning that at some point during this century we'll be confronted with an unprecedented threat to what it means to be human--the advent of sophisticated thinking machines. It's one thing to use calculators that outperform us; it would be quite another to face machines manifesting supra-human intelligence. Picture a cute little gadget perched on your desk who, b