“All of the information accumulated in a lifetime, we learn, is less than a drop in the ocean of information, and perhaps a creature that can collect more information and hold onto it longer is … more than human. In describing this vision of an evolving intelligence, Corinthians is evoked twice: ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known.”” —Roger Ebert’s review of the 1996 Ghost in the Shell
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How AI Will Rewire Us
“In 1985, some four decades after Isaac Asimov introduced his laws of robotics, he added another to his list: A robot should never do anything that could harm humanity. But he struggled with how to assess such harm. “A human being is a concrete object,” he later wrote. “Injury to a person can be estimated and judged. Humanity is an abstraction.”
Future Human 