Intelligence Squared debate: Don't trust the promise of artificial intelligence

In the Hollywood version, robots are human-like, and are either very good or very evil. Will super-intelligence and autonomous machines solve many of society's problems, or unleash many unintended consequences? The Intelligence Squared debate motion is: "Don't trust the promise of artificial intelligence."

FOR: Andrew Keen, author "The Internet is Not the Answer" and Jaron Lanier, author of "Who Owns the Future?" AGAINST: James Hughes of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Martine Rothblatt, author of "Virtually Human."

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