Collects the thoughts of almost two hundred of today's leading thinkers on the issue of artifical intelligence.

Machine-generated contents note:Consciousness In Human-Level AI / Murray Shanahan -- Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating / Steven Pinker -- Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future / Martin Rees -- A Turning Point In Artificial Intelligence / Steve Omohundro -- AI Is I / Dimitar D. Sasselov -- If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em / Frank Tipler -- Intelligent Machines on Earth and Beyond / Mario Livio -- I, for One, Welcome Our Machine Overlords / Antony Garrett Lisi -- Our Masters, Slaves, or Partners? / John Markoff -- Designed Intelligence / Paul Davies -- The Superintelligent Loner / Kevin P. Hand -- It's Going to Be a Wild Ride / John C. Mather -- Is Anyone in Charge of This Thing? / David Christian -- Witness to the Universe / Timo Hannay -- Let's Get Prepared! / Max Tegmark -- "Turing+" Questions / Tomaso Poggio -- An Epochal Human Event / Pamela McCorduck -- Welcome to Your Transhuman Self / Marcelo Gleiser -- We Are All Machines That Think / Sean Carroll -- The Control Crisis / Nicholas G. Carr -- We Built Them, but We Don't Understand Them / Sendhil Mullainathan -- We Need to Do Our Homework / Jaan Tallinn -- What Do You Cane What Other Machines Think? / George Church -- Machines Cannot Think / Arnold Trehub -- No "I" and No Capacity for Malice / Roy Baumeister -- Leveraging Human Intelligence / Keith Devlin -- A Machine Is a "Matter" Thing / Emanuel Derman -- I Could Be Wrong / Freeman Dyson -- Why Can't "Being" or "Happiness" Be Computed? / David Gelernter -- No Machine Thinks About the Eternal Questions / Leo M. Chalupa -- The Singularity -- an Urban Legend? / Daniel C. Dennett -- Nano-Intentionality / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- A Beautiful (Visionary) Mind / Irene Pepperberg -- The Colossus Is a BFG / Nicholas Humphrey -- Self-Aware AI? Not in 1,000 Years! / Rolf Dobelli -- Machines Don't Think, but Neither Do People / Cesar Hidalgo -- Tangled Up in the Question / James J. O'Donnell -- Mistaking Performance for Competence / Rodney A. Brooks -- AI Will Make You Smarter / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Shallow Learning / Seth Lloyd -- Natural Creatures of a Natural World / Carlo Rovelli -- Three Observations on Artificial Intelligence / Frank Wilczek -- When I Say "Bruno Latour," I Don't Mean "Banana Till" / John Naughton -- It's Still Early Days / Nick Bostrom -- Evolving AI / Donald D. Hoffman -- Machines That Think Are in the Movies / Roger Schank -- Head Transplants? / Juan Enriquez -- AI/AL / Esther Dyson -- Brains and Other Thinking Machines / Tom Griffiths -- They'll Do More Good Than Harm / Mark Pagel -- Keeping Them on a Leash / Robert Provine -- The Next Replicator / Susan Blackmore -- What If We're the Microbiome of the Silicon AI? / Tim O'Reilly -- You Are What You Eat / Andy Clark -- AI's System of Rights and Government / Moshe Hoffman -- The Robot with a Hidden Agenda / Brian Knutson -- Can Submarines Swim? / William Poundstone -- Fear Not the AI / Gregory Benford -- What, Me Worry? / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Design Machines to Deal with the World's Complexity / Peter Norvig -- The Rise of Story-telling Machines / Jonathan Gottschall -- Think Protopia, Not Utopia or Dystopia / Michael Shermer -- The Limits of Biological Intelligence / Chris Dibona -- Every Society Gets the AI It Deserves / Joscha Bach -- The Beasts of AI Island / Quentin Hardy -- We Will Become One / Clifford Pickover -- An Extraterrestrial Observation on Human Hubris / Ernst Poppel -- He Who Pays the AI Calls the Tune / Ross Anderson -- I Think, Therefore AI / W. Daniel Hillis -- What Will the Place of Humans Be? / Paul Saffo -- The Great AI Swindle / Dylan Evans -- The Odds on AI / Anthony Aguirre -- A New Wisdom of the Body / Eric J. Topol -- From Regular-I to AI / Roger Highfield -- We Need More Than Thought / Gordon Kane -- Are We Going in the Wrong Direction? / Scott Atran -- Two Cognitive Functions Machines Still Lack / Stanislas Dehaene -- Among the Machines, Not Within the Machines / Matt Ridley -- Another Kind of Diversity / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Narratives and Our Civilization / Luca De Biase -- Human Responsibility / Margaret Levi -- Amplifiers/Implementers of Human Choices / D.A. Wallach -- Make the Thing Impossible to Hate / Rory Sutherland -- Actress Machines / Bruce Sterling -- Call Them Artificial Aliens / Kevin Kelly -- Do Machines Do? / Martin Seligman -- Denkraumverlust / Timothy Taylor -- Analogue, the Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name / George Dyson -- The Values of Artificial Intelligence / S. Abbas Raza -- Artificial Selection and Our Grandchildren / Bruce Parker -- Really Good Hacks / Neil Gershenfeld -- The Airbus and the Eagle / Daniel L. Everett -- Humanness / Douglas Coupland -- Manipulators and Manipulanda / Josh Bongard -- Are We Thinking More Like Machines? / Ziyad Marar -- Just a New Fractal Detail in the Big Picture / Brian Eno -- eGaia, a Distributed Technical-Social Mental System / Marti Hearst -- The Hive Mind / Chris Anderson -- The Global Artificial Intelligence Is Here / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Will Computers Become Like Thinking, Talking Dogs? / Randolph Nesse -- Thinking Machines and Ennui / Richard E. Nisbett -- Naches from Our Machines / Samuel Arbesman -- No Shared Theory of Mind / Gerald Smallberg -- Blind to the Core of Human Experience / Eldar Shafir -- An Intuitive Theory of Machine / Christopher Chabris -- Thinking Saltmarshes / Ursula Martin -- Killer Thinking Machines Keep Our Conscience Clean / Kurt Gray -- When Thinking Machines Break the Law / Bruce Schneier -- Electric Brains / Rebecca Mackinnon -- Robodoctors / Gerd Gigerenzer -- Can Machines Ever Be As Smart As Three-Year-Olds? / Alison Gopnik -- Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken / Kevin Slavin -- AI Will Make Us Smart and Robots Afraid / Alun Anderson -- When Thinking Machines Are Not a Boon / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Justice for Machines in an Organicist World / Steve Fuller -- Don't Be a Chauvinist About Thinking / Tania Lombrozo -- This Sounds Like Heaven / Virginia Heffernan -- Machines That Work Until They Don't / Barbara Strauch -- The Moving Goalposts / Sheizaf Rafaeli -- Directionless Intelligence / Edward Slingerland -- Human Culture As the First AI / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Beyond the Uncanny Valley / Joichi Ito -- The Figure or the Ground? / Douglas Rushkoff -- Fast, Accurate, and Stupid / Helen Fisher -- Will They Make Us Better People? / Stuart Russell -- The Value-Loading Problem / Eliezer S. Yudkowsky -- In Our Image / Kate Jeffery -- The Umwelt of the Unanswerable / Maria Popova -- Will They Think About Themselves? / Kristin Laurin -- Organic Versus Artifactual Thinking / Raul Saucedo -- Context Surely Matters / Paul Dolan -- How to Prevent an Intelligence Explosion / Thomas G. Dietterich -- Thinking from the Inside or the Outside? / Matthew D. Lieberman -- Soft Authoritarianism / Michael Vassar -- What Will AIs Think About Us? / Gregory Paul -- A John Henry Moment / Andrian Kreye -- Machines Aren't into Relationships / N.J. Enfield -- The Next Phase of Human Evolution / Nina Jablonski -- Domination Versus Domestication / Gary Klein -- Machines Won't Be Thinking Anytime Soon / Gary Marcus -- Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse? / Sam Harris -- Could Thinking Machines Bridge the Empathy Gap? / Molly Crockett -- Caring Machines / Abigail Marsh -- Engines of Freedom / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- Any Questions? / Sarah Demers -- Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms on Faster Computers / Bart Kosko -- The Disadvantages of Metaphor / Julia Clarke -- A Universal Basis for Human Dignity / Michael McCullough -- Thinking About People Who Think Like Machines / Haim Harari -- Metathinking / Hans Halvorson -- The Value of Anticipation / Christine Finn -- An Ecosystem of Ideas / Dirk Helbing -- The Iron Law of Intelligence / John Tooby -- Thought-Stealing Machines / Maximilian Schich -- Unintended Consequences / Satyajit Das -- It Depends / Robert Sapolsky -- Will Machines Do Our Thinking for Us? / Athena Vouloumanos -- Sorry to Bother You / Brian Christian -- Moral Machines / Benjamin K. Bergen -- After the Plug Is Pulled / Laurence C. Smith -- Monitoring and Managing the Planet / Giulio Boccaletti -- Pan-experientialism / Ian Bogost -- When Is a Minion Not a Minion? / Aubrey De Grey -- Not Buggy Enough / Michael I. Norton -- More Funk, More Soul, More Poetry and Art / Thomas A. Bass -- The Future Is Blocked to Us / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- An Immaterial Thinkable Machine / Koo Jeong-A -- Baffled and Obsessed / Richard Foreman -- Who's Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? / Richard H. Thaler -- I See a Symbiosis Developing / Scott Draves -- Reimagining the Self in a Distributed World / Matthew Ritchie -- It's Easy to Predict the Future / Raphael Bousso -- Fear of a God, Redux / James Croak -- Tulips on My Robot's Tomb / Andres Roemer -- Toward a Naturalistic Account of Mind / Lee Smolin -- Machines That Think? Nuts! / Stuart A. Kauffman -- The Future Possibility-Space of Intelligence / Melanie Swan -- Love / Tor N²rretranders -- An Uncanny Three-Ring Test for Machina sapiens / Kai Krause -- Free from Us / Georg Diez -- Flawless AI Seems Like Science Fiction / Eduardo Salcedo-AlbaraN -- Emergent Hybrid Human/Machine Chimeras / Maria Spiropulu -- What If They Need to Suffer? / Thomas Metzinger -- Will We Recognize It When It Happens? / Beatrice Golomb -- Metarepresentation / Noga Arikha -- Envoi: A Short Distance Ahead -- and Plenty to Be Done / Mustafa Suleyman.