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Quantum Mechanics
Dr. Frederico Faggin
Do AI computers pose a threat to humankind?
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Editor's note:
Dr. Frederico Faggin is one of the heavyweight scientist-inventors of the 20th century. In 1971 he developed the first silicon chip, the microprocessor at the heart of all electronic devices today. He also produced the new touch-sceen technology.
Currently, he is writing, lecturing, and advocating what he feels to be an even more fundamental revolution in science - that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all reality.
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Do AI computers pose a threat to humankind?
Computers can perform mechanical operations much faster than humans. Let them do it. This is a benefit to society.
However, as the movies, and some materialists, love to portray, will AI advance to the point of rising up against their human masters? Will the machines destroy us?
No computer could ever have any concept of “rising up.” This is not possible.
Could they become dangerous? – absolutely, if their programmers make them dangerous. It is the human heart of darkness that threatens humankind, not the machines, as such.
See more, Irreducible, pg. 153:
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Editor's last word:
Also see youtube interviews of Dr. Faggin, for example, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Q_W6H_nZk
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5REKKkKZpY
wherein Dr. Faggin makes comments, such as, "The structure of matter is isomorphic [“equal form”] to the cognitive structure of consciousness, which can reflect itself [in matter]"; our "bodies reflect the accumulated learning of consciousness; matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing."
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