In How to Think About AI, Richard Susskind speculates that flesh-and-blood humans could be made obsolete
All jobs, no matter how sophisticated, could be threatened by AI. Photo: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty
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‘The field of AI is littered with nevers,” writes Richard Susskind, in How to Think About AI. “Again and again, commentators and AI specialists have excluded topics from ethical discourse on the grounds that machines will never be able to do x, y, or z.” Then, rapidly, inevitably, AI achieves what it was claimed it couldn’t do and we are left struggling to catch up.
This book turns out to be something other than its title; it is less a guide than a meditation, containing far more questions than answers.
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