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Newsletter Nr. 1.040
Amsterdam, April 23rd, 2023


‘PLEASE DON'T TURN ME OFF!’ - Alan Turing, Animism, Intentional Stances, and Other Minds - DAVID CHRISTOPHER LANE AND ANDREA DIEM

It is not a question of whether artificial intelligence is really conscious or truly intelligent. Rather, it centers over whether we have crossed a major threshold where large numbers of people around the world believe that A.I. applications are conscious and intelligent and may even have developed their own agendas, hidden or otherwise. The danger is in human perception, not in A.I. per se, and this in itself can lead to all sorts of unforeseen problems, not the least of which is prematurely shutting down machine learning and/or progressive funding of A.I. because of irrational fears of a doomsday scenario. 

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