Skip to main content 2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK? In the News [ 18 ] | Contributors [ 192 ] | View All Responses [ 192 ] 2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK? An Epochal Scientific, Technological, And What Do You Care What Other Machines Social—"Human"—Event Think? 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 Frank Wilczek 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... Nature... 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... 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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 Artificial Intelligence? 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 Computer Science, 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, Digital Science, Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, "A Macmillan Publishers;... 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... 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