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Timothy Martin, Postdoctoral fellow, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University

Are you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI

Writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry wrote that, 'the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.' (Unsplash)

We have been bombarded in recent weeks with apocalyptic headlines about “artificial super-intelligence” and the possibilities of a new era of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) in which AI achieves human capacities for reason and learning.

Concerns vary from its misuse in bioterrorism to the capacity of AI agents to form collectives, “go rogue” and perform unauthorized attacks on systems, or even to take over the internet and terminate humanity.

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