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Pamela McCorduck George Church Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Author, Regenesis; Professor, Harvard Machine, Bounded... University; Director... Nobody Would Ever Ask A Machine What Just Other Natural Creatures Of A Natural It Thinks About Machines That Think World

James J. O'Donnell Carlo Rovelli Classical Scholar, University Professor, Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille Georgetown... University, in the... A Difficult Topic The Singularity—an Urban Legend?

Nick Bostrom Daniel C. Dennett Professor, Oxford University; Director, Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Future of Humanity... Philosophy, Co... Evolving AI Machines That Think Are In The Movies

Donald D. Hoffman Roger Schank Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines Intelligence for... Machines That Can Think Will Do More Three Observations on Artificial Good Than Harm Intelligence

Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in University,... Physics;... Irrational Machines and Humans The Next Replicator

Robert Provine Susan Blackmore Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An University of... Introduction Thinking About People Who Think Like You Are What You Eat: Home-Grown A.I.s Machines and the Big Data Food Chain

Haim Harari Andy Clark Physicist, former President, Weizmann Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist, Institute of Science... University of... Ask Not Can Machines Think, Ask How Can Submarines Swim? Machines Fit Into The Mechanisms We Design

William Poundstone Journalist; Author, Are Your Smart Enough Peter Norvig To Work At Google... Director of Research, Google Inc.; Fellow of the AAAI and... Mistaking Performance For Competence Misleads Estimates Of AI's 21st Century The Rise of Storytelling Machines Promise And Danger

Jonathan Gottschall Rodney A. Brooks Distinguished Research Fellow, English Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics Department,... (emeritus) ,... Machines (Humanly Constructed Enhancing The Cognitive Capacity Of Our 7 Artifacts) Cannot Think Billion Thinking Machines

Arnold Trehub Giulio Boccaletti Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Physicist; Atmospheric and Oceanic Scientist, Amherst; Author... ... When It Comes To AI, Think Protopia, Not Utopia Or Dystopia The Limits Of Biological Intelligence

Michael Shermer Chris DiBona Psychologist; Historian of science; Publisher, Open Source and Public Sector, Google Skeptic... When Is A Minion Not A Minion? Head Transplants?

Aubrey De Grey Juan Enriquez Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer. SENS Managing Director, Excel Venture Foundation;... Management; Co-author,... What Does Thinking About Thinking The Beasts of A.I. Island Machines Tell Us About Human Beings?

Quentin Hardy Satyajit Das Deputy Technology Editor, The New York Former Banker; Author, Extreme Money; Times; Lecturer, U.C... Traders Guns &... We Will Become One The Colossus Is A BFG

Clifford Pickover Nicholas Humphrey Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, and The Medical... School of... What Will Be The Place Of Humans In A World Occupied By An Exponentially He Who Pays The AI, Calls The Tune Growing Population Of Autonomous Machines

Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Paul Saffo Cambridge University Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,... A New Wisdom of the Body The Great AI Swindle

Eric J. Topol, M D Dylan Evans Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Founder and CEO of Projection Point; author, Translational Science... Risk... What Do I Think About Machines That Between Regular-I And AI Think?

Roger Highfield Gordon Kane Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Theoretical Particle Physicist and Group; Coauthor... Cosmologist; Victor... We Should Consider The Future World As Thinking Machines And Ennui One Of Multi-Species Intelligence

Richard Nisbett Melanie Swan Professor of Psychology, University of Systems-Level Thinker; Futurist; Applied Michigan; Author,... Genomics Expert;... What Neuroscience And Machine Models Our Concept Of Nature Of The Mind Should Be Looking For

Lee Smolin Scott Atran Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Reborn Research,... Two Cognitive Functions That Machines Another Kind Of Diversity Still Lack

Stephen M. Kosslyn Stanislas Dehaene Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Graduate... Author, The... I Think That Machines Can't Think Who's Afraid of ?

Emanuel Derman Richard H. Thaler Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia Father of Behavioral Economics; Director, University;... Center for... Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three- An Extraterrestrial Observation About Year-Olds? Human Hubris

Alison Gopnik Ernst Pöppel Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Neuroscientist; Chairman, Board of Directors Philosophical Baby Human Science... Human Responsibility For Machines That It's Not About The Human Species: It's Think About Civilizations

Margaret Levi Luca De Biase Director, Center For Advanced Study in Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore Behavioral Sciences... Artificial Intelligence Will Make You What If They Need To Suffer? Smarter

Thomas Metzinger Terrence J. Sejnowski Professor of Philosophy, Philosophisches Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Seminar, Johannes... Professor, the... Amplifiers/Implementers Of Consciously- No Machine Has Ever Thought About The Directed Human Choices Eternal Questions

D.A. Wallach Leo M. Chalupa Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Neurobiologist; Vice President of Research, Residence, Spotify George... Thinking Machines Call Them Artificial Aliens

Bruce Sterling Kevin Kelly Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Senior Maverick, Wired, Author, Cool Tools; America What Technology... Do Machines Do? Leveraging Human Intelligence

Martin Seligman Keith Devlin Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Center,... Institute,... Yes, But The Values Of Artificial Intelligence

Neil Gershenfeld S. Abbas Raza Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com Atoms;... A Cultural Context Humanness

Daniel L. Everett Douglas Coupland Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist Sciences, Bentley... in Residence Are We Thinking More Like Machines That Manipulators and Manipulanda Think?

Joshua Bongard Ziyad Marar Associate Professor of , Global Publishing Director, SAGE; Author, University of... Intimacy:... Thinking About Thinking Machines AI's Will Save Us All

Thomas A. Bass Frank Tipler English Professor, University at Albany; Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane Author, The Spy... University;... Intelligent Machines—On Earth And eGaia—A Distributed Technical-Social Beyond Mental System

Mario Livio Marti Hearst Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Institute; Author,... Information;... Will Thinking Machines Evolve To Be As The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here Wonderful As Dogs?

Alex (Sandy) Pentland Randolph Nesse Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center Human... for Evolution... Machines Will Always Lack Feeling Or "Naches" from our Machines Emotion

Samuel Arbesman Gerald Smallberg Complex Systems Scientist and Writer; Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Senior Adjunct Fellow... Playwright, Off-Off... It's Going To Be A Wild Ride Thinking Saltmarshes

John C. Mather Ursula Martin Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Professor of Computer Science, University of Cosmology Laboratory,... Oxford Killer Thinking Machines Keep Human Robodoctors Could Provide Better Consciences Clean Psychology, Not Just Technology

Kurt Gray Gerd Gigerenzer Assistant Professor of Psychology, University Psychologist; Director of the Center for of North... Adaptive Behavior... Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken A Crisis of Control

Kevin Slavin Nicholas G. Carr Assistant Professor and Founder, Playful Author, The Shallows and The Glass Cage Systems, MIT Media... An Uncanny Three-Ring Test For "Machina Don't Just Think, Feel Sapiens"

Timo Hannay Kai Krause Managing Director, , Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, "A ;... Realtime... AI Will Make Us Smart And Robots Afraid Shallow Learning

Alun Anderson Seth Lloyd Senior Consultant (& former Editor-in-Chief Professor of Quantum Mechanical &... Engineering, MIT; Author,... Doing Justice To Machines In An Machines That Think "Organicist" World

Mary Catherine Bateson Steve Fuller Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Visiting... Epistemology,... This Sounds Like Heaven Machines That Work Until They Don't

Virginia Heffernan Barbara Strauch Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, Editorial Director... The Secret Life... Thinking Machines Are About We Are All Machines That Think Communication

Sean Carroll Sheizaf Rafaeli Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, The Professor, Director, The Center for Internet Particle at the... Research,... Machines Aren't Thinking "About" Human Culture As The First Artificial Anything Intelligence

Edward Slingerland Nicholas A. Christakis Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Physician and Social Scientist, Yale Chair in... University; Co-author... Is Anyone In Charge Of This Thing? Beyond "The Uncanny Valley"

David Christian Joichi Ito Director, Big History Institute and Director, MIT Media Lab Distinguished Professor... Analog...The Revolution That Dares Not "Designed Intelligence" (DI) Speak Its Name

Paul Davies George Dyson Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro- Science Historian; Author, Turing's biologist; co-... Cathedral: The... Landscapes What If We Are the MicroBiome of the Silicon AI?

Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Tim O'Reilly Present Shock Founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, Inc. A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind What is "To Think"?

Irene Pepperberg Helen Fisher Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers Adjunct... University; Author, Why... Machines That Think? NUTS Will They Make Us Better People?

Stuart A. Kauffman Stuart Russell Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Professor of Computer Science, Director, Astronomy,... Center for... "Turing+" Questions It Depends

Tomaso Poggio Robert Sapolsky Eugene McDermott Professor in the Neuroscientist, ; Author, Department of Brain and... Monkeyluv Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term The Umwelt of the Unanswerable Future

Maria Popova Writer, BrainPickings.org Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of... Will Thinking Machines Think About What, Me Worry? Themselves?

Lawrence M. Krauss Jessica L. Tracy Physicist; Cosmologist, ASU; Author, A Associate Professor of Psychology, University Universe from Nothing of British... Will Thinking Machines Think About Machines Think but Don't Want, and Themselves? Hence Aren't Dangerous

Kristin Laurin Roy Baumeister Assistant Professor of Organizational Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of Behavior, Stanford... the social... Context Surely Matters In Our Own Image

Paul Dolan Kate Jeffery Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Expert on Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Head, Happiness Dept. of... Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking

Raul Saucedo June Gruber Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado... of Colorado,... When Thinking Machines Break The Law Electric Brains

Bruce Schneier Rebecca MacKinnon Security Technologist; Fellow, Berkman Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New Center for Internet... America... How To Create an Intelligence Explosion— I, For One, Welcome Our Superintelligent And How to Prevent One Machine Overlords

Thomas G Dietterich Antony Garrett Lisi Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Theoretical physicist Director of... Our Masters, Slaves or Partners? Thinking From The Inside Or The Outside?

John Markoff Matthew D. Lieberman Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter; The New Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, York Times; Author... Social: Why Our... AI is I What You Don't Think About Can Hurt You... or Be Hurt By You

Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Michael Vassar Director,... Founder and Chief Science Officer, BayesCraft What Will AI's Think About Old-Fashioned The Future Is Blocked To Us Human Minds?

Hans Ulrich Obrist Gregory Paul Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: Independent Researcher; Author, The A Brief... Princeton Field Guide... A John Henry Moment Tulips On My Robot's Tomb

Andrian Kreye Andrés Roemer Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of Co-creator, Ideas City; Author, Move UP: Why the German... Some Cultures... They Don't Think Socially Self-Aware AI: Not In A Thousand Years

N.J. Enfield Rolf Dobelli Professor of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, Nijmegen and... The Art of... Welcome To The Next Phase Of Human Welcome To Your Transhuman Self Evolution

Marcelo Gleiser Nina Jablonski Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Dartmouth College... Distinguished... Domination Versus Domestication Love

Gary Klein Tor Nørretranders Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Author, Seeing What... Copenhagen; Author,... Why Can't "Being" Be Computed? Why Machines Don't Think, But Neither Do Can't "Happiness"? People

David Gelernter Cesar Hidalgo Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab ; Author, Scientist,... Why... Machines Won't Be Thinking Anytime Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse? Soon

Sam Harris Gary Marcus Neuroscientist; Co-founder and Chairman, Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center Project Reason;... for Language... Could Thinking Machines Bridge The Caring Machines Empathy Gap?

Abigail Marsh Molly Crockett Associate Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Experimental Georgetown University Psychology, University... Engines Of Freedom Response

Alexander Wissner-Gross Koo Jeong - A Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur Artist "Seduced (And "Abandoned"?) . . Any Questions? ."Thinkingness" (The Art of That )

Sarah Demers Richard Foreman Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Playwright & Director; Founder, The Yale... Ontological-... Machine Thought Will Never Have More Progress Free From The Burden Of Than A Metaphorical Relationship With Humanity And History Human Thought

Georg Diez Julia Clarke Writer, Journalist, Der Spiegel & Spiegel Associate Professor; A. Wilson Centennial Online;... Fellow in... People Must Take Responsibility For Thought Machines, Human Minds, And A Their Actions. Scientists And Universal Basis For Dignity Technologists Are No Exception.

Michael McCullough Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Co-Founder, Centre for the Study of Laboratory,... Existential Risk,... Meta-thinking The Superintelligent Loner

Hans Halvorson Kevin P. Hand Professor of Philosophy, Princeton Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System University Exploration, NASA... Brains And Other Thinking Machines The Wonder Of Anticipation

Tom Griffiths Christine Finn Associate Professor, Psychology and Archaeologist, Journalist; Author, Artifacts Cognitive Science,... Distributed Collective Intelligence: The The Robot With A Hidden Agenda Network Of Ideas

Brian Knutson Dirk Helbing Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair of Sociology, ETH Zurich; Scientific Neuroscience;... Coordinato,... Machines Mostly Steal Thoughts But Open The Iron Law Of Intelligence A New Era Of Exploration

John Tooby Maximilian Schich Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, Co-director,... University of... Will Machines Do Our Thinking For Us? When You Need Someone

Athena Vouloumanos Brian Christian Associate Professor of Psychology, Director, Philosopher, Computer Scientist, Poet; NYU Infant... Author, The Most... Grandchildren, If-Then Statements, And "Denkraumverlust" Artificial (Natural) Selection

Timothy Taylor Bruce Parker Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime University of... System; Author, The... Moral Machines After The Plug

Benjamin K. Bergen Laurence C. Smith Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor University of... of Earth,... What If Thinking Machines Are Already Nano-Intentionality: Why We Have Little All Around Us? to Fear From "Thinking Machines"

Ian Bogost W. Tecumseh Fitch Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Department of Cognitive Biology, University Media Studies;... of Vienna;... Not Buggy Enough Focus On Our Destination, Not The Schedule

Michael I. Norton Associate Professor of Marketing, Harvard Scott Draves Business School;... Software Artist Fear Not The AI Not Machines Plural, Machine Singular

Gregory Benford Chris Anderson Emeritus Professor of Physics and Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks Astronomy, UC-Irvine;... Reimagining The Self In A Distributed It Is Easy To Predict The Future World

Raphael Bousso Matthew Ritchie Professor of Theoretical Physics, Berkeley Artist Why Is It Hard To Think About Thinking Machines? Fear Of A God, The Redux

Christopher Chabris James Croak Associate Professor of Psychology, Union Artist College; Co-... AI's System Of Rights And Government Will We Recognize It When It Happens?

Moshe Hoffman Beatrice Golomb Research Scientist, Harvard University; Professor of Medicine at UCSD Lecturer, MIT When I Say "Bruno Latour" I Don't Mean Among The Machines, Not Within The "Banana Till" Machines

John Naughton Matt Ridley Vice-President, Wolfson College; Author, Science Writer; Founding chairman of the From Gutenberg to... International... All The Things They Couldn't Possibly Simulated Social Machines Are Like Meat Think For Vegans

Eldar Shafir Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc and Public... Towards The Emergence Of Hybrid Metarepresentation Human-Machine Chimeras

Noga Arikha Maria Spiropulu Historian of ideas; Author, Passions and Physics Professor, Caltech; Experimental Tempers: A History... Physicist Make The Thing Impossible To Hate Don’t Be A Chauvinist About Thinking

Rory Sutherland Tania Lombrozo Executive Creative Director and Vice- Associate Professor of Psychology, UC Chairman, OgilvyOne... Berkeley The Age Of The New Machines, Or Every Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms On Society Will Get The Artificial Intelligence Faster Computers It Deserves

Bart Kosko Joscha Bach Information Scientist and Professor of Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Electrical... Program for... Thinking Aloud About Thinking The Odds On AI Machines—Chemistry Vs. Electronics

Anthony Aguirre Esther Dyson Professor of Physics, University of California, Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, Santa Cruz EDventure... Consciousness In Human-Level Artificial 2014—A Turning Point in AI And Robotics Intelligence

Steve Omohundro Murray Shanahan Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial Center for... College London;... The Value Loading Problem Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Steven Pinker Research Fellow; Co-founder, Machine Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Intelligence Research... Psychology;... We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Let's Get Prepared! Them

Max Tegmark Sendhil Mullainathan Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Cosmology; Scientific... Director for... We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Them I Could Be Wrong

Jon Kleinberg Freeman Dyson Tisch University Professor of Computer Physicist Science, Cornell... Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big I Think, Therefore AI Picture

W. Daniel Hillis Brian Eno Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Applied Minds,... Coldplay, Talking... General Purpose Learning Machines General Purpose Learning Machines

Mustafa Suleyman Shane Legg Head of Applied AI, Google DeepMind; Co- AI Researcher; Co-founder, DeepMind founder, DeepMind... Technologies General Purpose Learning Machines An AI

Demis Hassabis Katinka Matson Vice President of Engineering, Google Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; DeepMind; Co-founder... President,...