Chaos and cause

One way to change the nature of these relationships, then, is to change the way we think about intelligence: what it is, how it acts on the world, and who possesses it. Beyond the narrow framing put forward by both technology companies and the doctrine of human uniqueness (the idea that, among all beings, human intelligence is singular and pre-emin

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Because of a quirk in our evolutionary history, we are cruising as the only self-conscious species on our planet, leaving us with the incorrect idea that human intelligence is singular. It is not. Our intelligence is a society of intelligences, and this suite occupies only a small corner of the many types of intelligences and consciousnesses that a

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Since an AI will think millions of times faster than we do, and use its superintelligence to recursively improve its superintelligence (a scenario sometimes called “foom,” after the comic-book sound effect), from the instant it is turned on we will be powerless to stop it.22 But the scenario makes about as much sense as the worry that since jet pla

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