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Physicists, philosophers, professors, authors, cognitive scientists, and many others have weighed in on edge.org's annual question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? See all 186 responses here
Also, what do you think?
My 2ยข: There's been a lot of focus on potential disasters that are almost certainly not going to happen. E.g. a robot uprising, or mass poverty through unemployment. Most manufacturers of artificial intelligence won't program their machines to seek self preservation at the expense of their human masters. It wouldn't sell. Secondly, if robots can one day produce almost everything we need, including more robots, with almost no human labour required, then robot-powered factories will become like libraries: relatively cheap to maintain, plentiful, and a public one will be set up in every town or suburb, for public use. If you think the big corporations wouldn't allow it, why do they allow public libraries?
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday January 23 2015, @11:57AM
Frank Herbert wrote about the "Butlerian jihad" where people turned on the machines that once ruled them. Machines started out doing everything for people so people would not have to work, and then took over. Eventually, people revolted and destroyed the machines, and ingrained into human society that thinking machines were no longer allowed. That about says it all.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:32AM
Well, that's more his comment about people than about AIs. Also, it was necessary for him to write the stories that he wanted to write. But he wrote things besides the Dune cycle, and in those he doesn't appear to have any more distrust of AIs than he does of other advanced technologies.
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