2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?

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2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?

Metarepresentation Noga Arikha Associate Fellow, Warburg Insitute (London); Research...	General Purpose Learning Machines Mustafa Suleyman Head of Applied AI, Google DeepMind; Co-founder, DeepMind...
General Purpose Learning Machines Shane Legg AI Researcher; Co-founder, DeepMind Technologies	General Purpose Learning Machines Demis Hassabis Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind; Co-founder...
Will Thinking Machines Think About Themselves? Kristin Laurin Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford...	Will Thinking Machines Think About Themselves? Jessica L. Tracy Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British...
The Umwelt of the Unanswerable Maria Popova Writer, BrainPickings.org	Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking Raul Saucedo Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado...
Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking June Gruber Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado,...	I Could Be Wrong Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...
In Our Own Image Kate Jeffery Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of...	I Think, Therefore AI W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied...
When Thinking Machines Break The Law Bruce Schneier Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Data...	The Odds On AI Anthony Aguirre Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz...
An AI Katinka Matson Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President,...	I, For One, Welcome Our Superintelligent Machine Overlords Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist
Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	Electric Brains Rebecca MacKinnon Director, Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America...
The Future Is Blocked To Us Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...	What Will AI's Think About Old-Fashioned Human Minds? Gregory Paul Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide...
What You Don't Think About Can Hurt You... or Be Hurt By You Michael Vassar Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research	AI is I Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...
Our Masters, Slaves or Partners? John Markoff Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The New York Times; Author...	How To Create an Intelligence Explosion—And How to Prevent One Thomas G Dietterich Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director of...
Towards The Emergence Of Hybrid Human-Machine Chimeras Maria Spiropulu Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, California Institute...	All The Things They Couldn't Possibly Think Eldar Shafir William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public...
Simulated Social Machines Are Like Meat For Vegans Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.	Reimagining The Self In A Distributed World Matthew Ritchie Artist
Among The Machines, Not Within The Machines Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the...	When I Say "Bruno Latour" I Don't Mean "Banana Till" John Naughton Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts,...
AI's System Of Rights And Government Moshe Hoffman Research Scientist, Harvard University; Lecturer, MIT	Will We Recognize It When It Happens? Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD
Fear Of A God, The Redux James Croak Artist	Why Is It Hard To Think About Thinking Machines? Christopher Chabris Senior Investigator, Geisinger Health System; Visiting...
It Is Easy To Predict The Future Raphael Bousso Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC...	Not Machines Plural, Machine Singular Christopher J. Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks
Thinking From The Inside Or The Outside? Matthew D. Lieberman Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Author, Social: Why Our...	2014—A Turning Point in AI And Robotics Steve Omohundro Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Center for...
Focus On Our Destination, Not The Schedule Scott Draves Software Artist	Grandchildren, If-Then Statements, And Artificial (Natural) Selection Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author...
Not Buggy Enough Michael I. Norton Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration,...	"Denkraumverlust" Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...
Make The Thing Impossible To Hate Rory Sutherland Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, the Spectator;...	Nano-Intentionality: Why We Have Little to Fear From "Thinking Machines" W. Tecumseh Fitch Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna;...
Don’t Be A Chauvinist About Thinking Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley	When You Need Someone Brian Christian Author, The Most Human Human; Co-author (with Tom Griffiths...
What If Thinking Machines Are Already All Around Us? Ian Bogost Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and...	Thinking Aloud About Thinking Machines—Chemistry Vs. Electronics Esther Dyson Investor; Chairman, EDventure Holdings; Executive Founder,...
Moral Machines Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of...	Fear Not The AI Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...
After The Plug Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...	The Age Of The New Machines, Or Every Society Will Get The Artificial Intelligence It Deserves Joscha Bach Cognitive Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for...
Consciousness In Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Murray Shanahan Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London;...	Machines Mostly Steal Thoughts But Open A New Era Of Exploration Maximilian Schich Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, The University...
Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms On Faster Computers Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...	Will Machines Do Our Thinking For Us? Athena Vouloumanos Associate Professor of Psychology, Director, NYU Infant...
The Value Loading Problem Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Research Fellow; Co-founder, Machine Intelligence Research...	The Iron Law Of Intelligence John Tooby Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...
The Robot With A Hidden Agenda Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford...	Brains And Other Thinking Machines Tom Griffiths Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology,...
Distributed Collective Intelligence: The Network Of Ideas Dirk Helbing Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich; TU...	The Wonder Of Anticipation Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic
We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Them Sendhil Mullainathan Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for...	We Built Them, But We Don't Understand Them Jon Kleinberg Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell...
Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...	Let's Get Prepared! Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...
The Superintelligent Loner Kevin P. Hand Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA...	Meta-thinking Hans Halvorson Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Thought Machines, Human Minds, And A Universal Basis For Dignity Michael McCullough Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human...	People Must Take Responsibility For Their Actions. Scientists And Technologists Are No Exception. Jaan Tallinn Co-Founder, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk,...
Progress Free From The Burden Of Humanity And History Georg Diez Writer, Journalist, Der Spiegel & Spiegel Online;...	Any Questions? Sarah Demers Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale...
Response Koo Jeong - A Artist	Machine Thought Will Never Have More Than A Metaphorical Relationship With Human Thought Julia Clarke John A. Wilson Professor and HHMI Professor, Jackson School...
Engines Of Freedom Alexander Wissner-Gross Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor	"Seduced (And "Abandoned"?) . . ."Thinkingness" (The Art of That ) Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-...
Could Thinking Machines Bridge The Empathy Gap? Molly Crockett Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University;...	Caring Machines Abigail Marsh Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse? Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Making Sense	Machines Don't Think, But Neither Do People César Hidalgo Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Author, Why Information...
Machines Won't Be Thinking Anytime Soon Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...	Love Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark
Domination Versus Domestication Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...	Why Can't "Being" Be Computed? Why Can't "Happiness"? David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
Welcome To Your Transhuman Self Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College...	Self-Aware AI: Not In A Thousand Years Rolf Dobelli Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of...
They Don't Think Socially Nick Enfield Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University...	Welcome To The Next Phase Of Human Evolution Nina Jablonski Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Evan Pugh...
Tulips On My Robot's Tomb Andrés Roemer Co-creator, Ideas City; Author, Move UP: Why Some Cultures...	A John Henry Moment Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...
Context Surely Matters Paul Dolan Behavioral Scientist, LSE; Author, Happy Ever After	It Depends Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
What, Me Worry? Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...	Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...
"Turing+" Questions Tomaso Poggio Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and...	Will They Make Us Better People? Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science, Director, Center for...
Machines That Think? NUTS Stuart A. Kauffman Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...	What is "To Think"? Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...
A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex...	What If We Are the MicroBiome of the Silicon AI? Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?:...
Landscapes Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	"Designed Intelligence" (DI) Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...
Analog...The Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia	Is Anyone In Charge Of This Thing? David Christian Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor...
Beyond "The Uncanny Valley" Joichi Ito Director, MIT Media Lab; Coauthor (with Jeff Howe),...	Human Culture As The First Artificial Intelligence Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...
Machines Aren't Thinking "About" Anything Edward Slingerland Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in...	Thinking Machines Are About Communication Sheizaf Rafaeli Professor, Director, The Center for Internet Research,...
We Are All Machines That Think Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply...	Machines That Think Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting...
The Next Replicator Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...	Machines That Work Until They Don't Barbara Strauch Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life...
Doing Justice To Machines In An "Organicist" World Steve Fuller Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology,...	This Sounds Like Heaven Virginia Heffernan Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director...
Shallow Learning Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...	AI Will Make Us Smart And Robots Afraid Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...
An Uncanny Three-Ring Test For "Machina Sapiens" Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...	Don't Just Think, Feel Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci...
A Crisis of Control Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy	Between Regular-I And AI Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken Kevin Slavin Assistant Professor and Founder, Playful Systems, MIT Media...	Robodoctors Could Provide Better Psychology, Not Just Technology Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...
Killer Thinking Machines Keep Human Consciences Clean Kurt Gray Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North...	Thinking Saltmarshes Ursula Martin Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford
It's Going To Be A Wild Ride John C. Mather Nobel Prize in Physics; Senior Astrophysicist,...	Machines Will Always Lack Feeling Or Emotion Gerald Smallberg Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off...
"Naches" from our Machines Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital...	The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here Alex "Sandy" Pentland Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, MIT...
Will Thinking Machines Evolve To Be As Wonderful As Dogs? Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...	eGaia—A Distributed Technical-Social Mental System Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...
Machines Think but Don't Want, and Hence Aren't Dangerous Roy Baumeister Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and head of the social...	Thinking About Thinking Machines Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...
AI's Will Save Us All Frank Tipler Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;...	Manipulators and Manipulanda Joshua Bongard Cyril G. Veinott Green and Gold Professor, Department of...
Are We Thinking More Like Machines That Think? Ziyad Marar President of Global Publishing, SAGE; Author, Judged: The...	Intelligent Machines—On Earth And Beyond Mario Livio Astrophysicist; Author, Why?: What Makes Us Curious
A Cultural Context Daniel L. Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley...	Humanness Douglas Coupland Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist in Residence
Yes, But Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...	Do Machines Do? Martin Seligman Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center,...
Leveraging Human Intelligence Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	Call Them Artificial Aliens Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...
No Machine Has Ever Thought About The Eternal Questions Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology,...	Thinking Machines Bruce Sterling Science Fiction Author, Mirrorshades
Amplifiers/Implementers Of Consciously-Directed Human Choices D.A. Wallach Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spotify	What If They Need To Suffer? Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...
An Extraterrestrial Observation About Human Hubris Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...	It's Not About The Human Species: It's About Civilizations Luca De Biase Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore
Human Responsibility For Machines That Think Margaret Levi Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in...	Artificial Intelligence Will Make You Smarter Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds? Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...	Who's Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? Richard H. Thaler Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel...
I Think That Machines Can't Think Emanuel Derman Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;...	Another Kind Of Diversity Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...
Two Cognitive Functions That Machines Still Lack Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We...	What Neuroscience And Machine Models Of The Mind Should Be Looking For Scott Atran Anthropologist; Emeritus Research Director, Centre National...
Our Concept Of Nature Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...	Thinking Machines And Ennui Richard Nisbett Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of...
What Do I Think About Machines That Think? Gordon Kane Theoretical Particle Physicist and Cosmologist; Victor...	The Great AI Swindle Dylan Evans Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia...
A New Wisdom of the Body Eric Topol Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...	What Will Be The Place Of Humans In A World Occupied By An Exponentially Growing Population Of Autonomous Machines Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social...	He Who Pays The AI, Calls The Tune Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University
The Rise of Storytelling Machines Jonathan Gottschall Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department,...	What Does Thinking About Thinking Machines Tell Us About Human Beings? Satyajit Das Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation
When Is A Minion Not A Minion? Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...	Enhancing The Cognitive Capacity Of Our 7 Billion Thinking Machines Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author,...
We Will Become One Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...	The Colossus Is A BFG Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...
When It Comes To AI, Think Protopia, Not Utopia Or Dystopia Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...	The Beasts of A.I. Island Quentin Hardy Deputy Technology Editor, The New York Times; Former...
Machines (Humanly Constructed Artifacts) Cannot Think Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...	The Limits Of Biological Intelligence Chris DiBona Open Source and Public Sector, Google
Head Transplants? Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (...	Mistaking Performance For Competence Misleads Estimates Of AI's 21st Century Promise And Danger Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...
Thinking About People Who Think Like Machines Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...	Ask Not Can Machines Think, Ask How Machines Fit Into The Mechanisms We Design Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google Inc.; Fellow of the AAAI and...
The Values Of Artificial Intelligence S. Abbas Raza Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com	Can Submarines Swim? William Poundstone Journalist; Author, How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?:...
You Are What You Eat: Home-Grown A.I.s and the Big Data Food Chain Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...	Irrational Machines and Humans Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Three Observations on Artificial Intelligence Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...	Machines That Can Think Will Do More Good Than Harm Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK;...
Machines That Think Are In The Movies Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	Evolving AI Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...
The Singularity—an Urban Legend? Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...	A Difficult Topic Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity...
What Do You Care What Other Machines Think? George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome...	Just Other Natural Creatures Of A Natural World Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...
Nobody Would Ever Ask A Machine What It Thinks About Machines That Think James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans	An Epochal Scientific, Technological, And Social—"Human"—Event Pamela McCorduck Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded...