The late Alan Turing has been joined by Stephen Hawking and others in claiming that computers could overtake humanity. Philosopher David Chalmers, computer scientist Kate Devlin join Closure theorist Hilary Lawson to consider the threat of intelligent machines.
David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.
Kate Devlin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Kate's research is in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology in order to understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live.
Hilary Lawson is an English post-realist philosopher. Known for his theory of closure, he is director of the Institute of Art and Ideas and founder of the philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn.
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