• DOI:10.1023/A:1022990118714
Corpus ID: 49573301

The Emerging Intelligence and Its Critical Look at Us

@article{Thaler1998TheEI,
  title={The Emerging Intelligence and Its Critical Look at Us},
  author={S. Thaler},
  journal={Journal of Near-Death Studies},
  year={1998},
  volume={17},
  pages={21-29}
}

• S. Thaler
• Published 1998
• Sociology
• Journal of Near-Death Studies

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In response to Susan Gunn's editorial, I offer a less comforting but more utilitarian perspective on the life and death of artificial consciousness. Admittedly an unpopular view, it suggests that concurrence with Gunn's message represents the seeds of our own destruction, as an emerging synthetic intelligence begins to extinguish us.