Will We Embrace our New Robot Overlords?
Channel: Idea Project
Date: 24/08/2018

Computers are capable of a lot of really cool things, but we’d never let our creations rule over us, right?  Thomas Hobbes may help shed some light on the situation.

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People worried about AI:
A Brain Speaks by Andy Clark: https://goo.gl/5SejBd
Superintelligence and Singularity by Ray Kurzweil: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118922590.ch15
The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis by David J. Chalmers: http://consc.net/papers/singularity.pdf
Alien Minds by Susan Schneider: http://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/Alien%20Minds%20-%20Susan%20Schneider.pdf 

Works Cited:
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Frome, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1651.

Wu, Tim. “The Tyranny of Convenience.” The New York Times, 17 Feb. 2018, p. SR1, www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html.

“Watson (computer).” Wikipedia. 20 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)#Development.

Gershgorn, Dave. “The Most Striking Thing about the WikiLeaks CIA Data Dump Is How Little Most People Cared.” Quartz Daily Brief, 11 Mar. 2017, https://qz.com/930512/the-most-striking-thing-about-the-wikileaks-cia-data-dump-is-how-little-most-people-cared/.