The Technological Singularity, What About an Unintelligent Singularity?
Abstract
For years we humans have worried about plagues, asteroids, earthquakes, eruptions, fires,
floods, famines, wars, genocides, and other uncontrollable events that could wipe away our
civilization. In the modern age, with so much depending on computing and communications, we
have added computers to our list of potential threats. Could we perish from the increasing
intelligence of computers? Denning thinks that is less of a threat than the apparently mundane
march of automated bureaucracies. He also asserts that none of the possible negative outcomes
is a forgone conclusion because humans teaming with machines are far more intelligent than
either one alone.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2668388