Man vs. Machine

Utah State University professor Hugh De Garis predicts a takeover by AI-based "artilects" and a coming conflict between humans and machines in his 2005 book "The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines." He is featured in a coming documentary by...
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Kevin Warwick is in the video. (I met Kevin in 2003.) Kevin is a
leader in the Cyborg field (he has already done chip implants in
himself) and is very controversial in terms of the "transhuman
movement." He will be delivering a keynote at Luther on September 28
at 7:00 p.m. I also arranged for him to be available for some type of
open forum with students on September 27 - noon or late afternoon.
(He is coming directly from a visit at MIT to Luther.)


-Tim