Steve Fuller: Humans will merge with AI
From sociologist Steve Fuller, who has studied ID, at Telegraph: Stephen Hawking summed up the thinking of many of the researchers and funders behind artificial intelligence this week when he launched the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge by claiming that AI is “either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.” Fuller argues for a different approach, making Hawking himself his example: Indeed, we would do better to start with Stephen Hawking himself, universally acknowledged as the one of the great intellects of our times. Near the start of his illustrious career in physics forty years ago he began to suffer from motor neurone disease, which eventually rendered him quadriplegic. The word “cyborg” probably Read More ›