From Nautilus, meet Walter Pitts, the homeless genius who revolutionized artificial intelligence. Catastrophe by default: Amy Ireland on artificial intelligence and the end of humanity. Ashley Feinberg on how AI could ruin humanity, according to smart humans. Bill Gates doesn't get why we're not worried about super intelligent AI. Breaking: Moguls fear AI apocalypse. Robots can’t dance: Jeanne Carstensen on why the singularity is greatly exaggerated. Wayne Borody (Nippising): A Transhumanist Perspective on the Role of Social Robots in Future Humanoid Culture. Jim Tankersley on why it’s time for presidential candidates to reckon with robots. Laurent Alexandre on how artificial intelligence will kill capitalism — and it will happen sooner than you think. The robots are coming: John Lanchester reviews The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee and Average Is Over: Powering America beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen. Reign of the robots: Ian Leslie on how to live in the machine age. Mike Konczal on the one where Larry Summers demolished the robots and skills arguments: “Everyone should take it easy on the robot stuff for a while” (and more). Be calm, robots aren’t about to take your job, David Autor says; “if we automate all the jobs, we’ll be rich” (and more). The intellectual war over the rise of the machines continues.
