Within literature, there is a long tradition of using science fiction and alternative histories to comment on current society. Several…
I write both fiction and nonfiction and have published books in both genres. My next novel will be my fifteenth.…
(Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from the paper listed as #1 in the reference section) In a recent paper…
John Searle John Searle’s Chinese Room (1) thought experiment is often used as an argument for why AI is not,…
I only came upon Ian McEwan’s science fiction/alternate history novel about artificial intelligence by happenstance. In a Facebook post, people…
Ralf Stapelfeldt recently criticized Nick Bostrom’s idea of Superintelligence by asking the question, “Can there be a dumb Superintelligence?1” Stapelfeldt…
Ezekiel’s Brain was a groundbreaking exploration of the future of AI that anticipated what’s become a global discussion of AI’s…
Four hundred scholars and computer scientists recently issued a warning about the potentially catastrophic dangers of artificial intelligence, saying, “Mitigating…
One of the masters of so-called, “hard” science fiction is Arthur C. Clarke. With degrees in mathematics and physics, Clarke…
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and…
Last week, Google’s Chief AI scientist, Geoffrey Hinton, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” resigned and offered interviews…
In 2000, Eugene Stormer and Paul Crutzen introduced the title “Anthropocene” to denote the modern epoch in which “major and still…
In Cixin Liu’s “The Dark Forest,” the second book in the Chinese sci-fi writer’s “The Three-Body Problem” series, an alien…
In a recent blog, titled, “Planning for AGI and Beyond,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT-3,…
Voyages of the Delphi, published by NewLink Publishing, a division of Mystic Publishers When I was in a graduate student,…