AI and IA: Utopia or Extinction?

by Ted Peters (Editor)

Overview

Will advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) or IA (Intelligence Amplification) lead to the extinction of the human race as we know it? Or, will superintelligence lead to utopia? In this collection of thoughtful essays, we must first get clear on the question: is artificial intelligence actually intelligent or not? Only with an affirmative answer could our techies proceed toward their goal: the creation of a superintelligence that leads through transhumanism to a posthuman entity that would replace today's human. Should today's moderately intelligent human species voluntarily go extinct to make way for a more intelligent species to succeed us in evolutionary history? These scientific questions are addressed in this volume in light of their theological, ethical, and social implications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925679205
Publisher:	ATF Press
Publication date:	09/01/2019
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Ted Peters, Editorial 1. Noreen Herzfeld, The Enchantment of AI 2. Ted Peters, Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and Frankenfear 3. Neville Grant Rochow, Somnambulating Towards AI Dystopia? The Future of Rights and Freedoms 4. Alan Weissenbacher, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification: Salvation, Extinction, Faulty Assumptions, and Original Sin 5. Martinez Hewlett, AI in Recent Literature 6. Dan Peterson, On the Faith of Droids 7. Rajesh Sampath, From Heidegger on Technology to an Inclusive Puralistic Theology 8. Mark Graves, AI Reading Theology: Promises and Perils Levi Checketts, Idle Hands and the Omega Point: Labor Automation and Catholic Social Teaching 9. Levi Checketts, Idle Hands and the Omega Point: Labor Automation and Catholic Social Teaching