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The AI Cargo Cult: The Myth of a Superhuman Artificial Intelligence

In a new essay in Wired, Kevin Kelly confronts the idea that superhuman AI is inevitable.

In a widely-shared essay first published in Backchannel, Kevin Kelly, a Long Now co-founder and Founding Editor of Wired Magazine, argues that the inevitable rise of superhuman artificial intelligence—long predicted by leaders in science and technology—is a myth based on misperceptions without evidence.

Kevin is now Editor at Large at Wired and has spoken in the Seminar and Interval speaking series several times, including on his most recent book, The Inevitable—sharing his ideas on the future of technology and how our culture responds to it. Kevin was part of the team that developed the idea of the Manual for Civilization, making a series of selections for it, and has also put forth a similar idea called the Library of Utility.

Read Kevin Kelly’s essay in full (LINK).

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