2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?

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2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?

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