{"id":100061,"date":"2019-12-23T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/not-a-review-of-the-artificial-intelligence-contagion%e2%80%8b"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:32:35","slug":"not-a-review-of-the-artificial-intelligence-contagion%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/not-a-review-of-the-artificial-intelligence-contagion%e2%80%8b","title":{"rendered":"Not a review of \u201cThe Artificial Intelligence Contagion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe Artificial Intelligence Contagion\u201d is book and blog which compares A.I. and Robotics researchers to \u201cthe worst criminals the world has ever known\u201d. This is my rebuttal to the author\u2019s promotional material he circulated to 86 law professors and A.I. scientists.<\/p>\n

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\nA week ago I received an email from David Barnhizer, the author of a new book entitled \u201cThe Artificial intelligence contagion\u201d addressed to 86 law professors, attorneys, and A.I. Researchers. I\u2019ve began reading and found the book\u2019s blog and a book review which says that \u201c<\/em>Those responsible for [artificial intelligence and robotics] are the worst criminals the world has ever known<\/em><\/a>\u201d. This sentiment is repeated throughout the writings, claiming to reflect growing animosity towards the artificial intelligence community.<\/em><\/p>\n

For this reason, this piece is NOT a review of the book, which I did not read for reasons made obvious further below, for I do not wish to draw any attention to it. But I take exception to comparing me and my fellow scientists and researchers in artificial intelligence to genocidal dictators and war criminals. And Luddite Activism is a real danger. <\/em><\/p>\n

I therefore wrote this rebuttal, addressing the book\u2019s author and the remaining academics and scientists Barnhizer\u2019s email was sent to (edited for clarity).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Artificial Intelligence Contagion\u201d is book and blog which compares A.I. and Robotics researchers to \u201cthe worst criminals the world has ever known\u201d. This is my rebuttal to the author\u2019s promotional material he circulated to 86 law professors and A.I. scientists. A week ago I received an email from David Barnhizer, the author of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}