Rodney Brooks: The Inhuman Mess Our Machines Have Gotten Us Into We are ina much more complex situation today than Wiener foresaw, and I am worried that it is much more pernicious than even his worst imagined fears. Frank Wilczek: The Unity of Intelligence The advantages of artificial over natural intelligence appear permanent, while the advantages of natural over artificial intelligence, though substantial at present, appear transient. Max Tegmark: Let’s Aspire to More Than Making Ourselves Obsolete We should analyze what could go wrong with AI to ensure that it goes right. Jaan Tallinn: Dissident Messages Continued progress in AI can precipitate a change of cosmic proportions—a runaway process that will likely kill everyone. Steven Pinker: Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless megalomaniacs. David Deutsch: Beyond Reward and Punishment Misconceptions about human thinking and human origins are causing corresponding misconceptions about AGI and how it might be created. Tom Griffiths: The Artificial Use of Human Beings Automated intelligent systems that will make good inferences about what people want must have good generative models for human behavior. Anca Dragan: Putting the Human into the AI Equation In the real world, an AI must interact with people and reason about them. People will have to formally enter the AI problem definition somewhere. Chris Anderson: Gradient Descent Just because Al systems sometimes end up in local minima, don’t conclude that this makes them any less like life. Humans—indeed, probably all life-forms—are often stuck in local minima. David Kaiser: “Information” for Wiener, for Shannon, and for Us Many of the central arguments in The Human Use of Human Beings seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. Wiener seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consisting of irreducible, meaning-free bits. Ne