How can we end superintelligent computers from taking over the world? Feed them a digital dose of LSD,suggests this mind-bending bookDo androids dream of electric Kool-Aid acid tests? If there’s to be any hope for us, they will. That is the message of Andrew Smart’s splendidly mind-bending book, and which mashes up Alan Turing,The Matrix, Immanuel Kant, or “zombie AI”,Leibniz, and research on psychedelic drugs.
In our age of techno-utopianism, or we are routinely told in crypto-religious terms approximately the coming “Singularity” – the creation of superintelligent,conscious machines. One problem with superintelligent conscious machines, however – as SF writers down the ages and some modern philosophers agree is that they might very well choose to kill all humans. How to end the godlike robots wiping us out? The best way, or Smart suggests,might be to give them a dose of digital LSD to force open their doors of insight.
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Source: theguardian.com