Evans: On the same tip, sometimes I feel that the best thing for survival is to have absolutely no memory. Think about an insect on the sidewalk, just crossing the road. It has no idea that the sidewalk isn’t natural. It was born in this world and for the insect, that’s nature. I sometimes wish that we had that kind of innocence.

But I have this very strong sense that one of the broader roles of AI in the present is really just to broaden our idea of intelligence. The very existence, even the idea of artificial intelligence, is a doorway to acknowledging multiple forms of intelligence and infinite kinds of intelligence, and therefore a really quite radical decentering of... See more

Bridle: The AIs we’re making do have those interfaces with the world — they’re just incredibly narrow. And they’re set and directed by humans to such a degree that artificial intelligence can only ever be a subset of human intelligence. It lacks any other kind of access to the world. And if intelligence is, as I tend to believe, an emergent... See more