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Predictions Aren’t Very Reliable, Including about AI
Achieving human level AI depends on solving two quite different problems, one in computer technology, one in AI programming.
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Don’t Let the Robots Distract You
David D. Friedman says human-like robots are a distraction. If general AI arrives, we'll have much more pressing problems to worry about.
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Becoming Transhuman: The Complicated Future of Robot and Advanced Sapient Rights
Zoltan Istvan describes a complicated future when humans aren't the only sapients around anymore.
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Here’s Why Robots Aren’t Ready for the Robot Republic
If general intelligence is a requirement for citizenship, then we are a long way away from a robot republic.
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Citizen Robot
Roland Benedikter warns that as artificial intelligence rises, liberal societies must retain their humanistic orientation and their respect for human rights. Both are in danger, he argues.
Issues
Rights in a Post-Human World
Robot citizenship? Saudi Arabia just granted it. What about cyborgs? Or transhumans? This month we look at the politics of the singularity.