Apr/May 2020

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Salon


(This is an excerpt—click on the title to view the whole piece!)

Who's Afraid of Big Bad AI?

We think, we have consciousness, with our hands and feet, guts and muscles, just as trees "think" with their roots and leaves. To be sure, there is a way to make a machine that is identical to all the functions we have as human beings. The polite term for it is sexual intercourse.

Thomas J. Hubschman