AI and Philosophy: The Perils of Machines Thinking Like People

How do we philosophically think about artificial intelligence?

Johnny P
The Taoist Online
Published in
4 min readJun 14, 2023

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The robot army of supercomputers is not coming. Yet. When artificial intelligence (AI) experts talk about “extinction risk”, what they really mean is artificial general intelligence, or machines having all of the capabilities of humans.

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Lawyer writing on law & politics, artificial intelligence, and the future of it all.