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Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
May 25, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Science

Tagged
__featured, celebrity, Stephen Hawking}

Advice to Physicists: “Shut Up and Do Physics”

_{Well-known public intellectuals sometimes stray outside their silos of expertise, showing questionable judgment about, for example, AI} _{Robert J. Marks

May 25, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Science}

Stephen Hawking was a genius in theoretical physics but he did not know much about computers and his fears of an AI takeover were unfounded.

Stephen Hawking and the AI Apocalypse

_{Can doomsday headlines, chasing fame, stand in for deep knowledge of a subject?} _{Mind Matters

December 4, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy}

One thing a celebrity pundit can usually count on is an audience of media professionals who haven’t considered the problems carefully either and don’t want to. It is much easier and more profitable to market Doomsday than Levin’s Law. As always, the fact that laws governing the universe will eventually triumph is true but not news. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
July 12, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Apocalypticism, Elon Musk, predictions, Rodney Brooks, Stephen Hawking}

AI machines taking over the world?

_{It’s a cool apocalypse but does that make it more likely?} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 12, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

Doomsday thinking is easily mocked. The character marching hairy and barefoot under his “End Is Near” sign, is a staple of cartoons in middlebrow mags. Yet when media magnets market doomsday scenarios—like the late Stephen Hawking (“worst event in the history of our civilization”) and Elon Musk (“an immortal dictator from which we would never escape”) — it’s a Cool apocalypse.