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ROBOTICS AND AI
UTOPIAN
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
ALAIN DE BOTTON
Alain de Botton is one of and even more significantly, what “We’re about
Europe's most recognised we here call AEI: Artificial Emotional to make
philosophers. Alain is also Intelligence.
a bestselling author and has emotional
opened a school in London We need AEI rather badly because intelligence as
called The School of Life, our emotional frailties dwarf our common and
dedicated to a new vision of incapacities in raw mathematics
education. or data management: we make as cheap as
extremely poor decisions about how electricity or
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is we should manage relationships, or
the science of making clever which job to focus on and when to pencils.”
machines. When people think quit. We don’t know what to spend our
of how machines will help us in the money on. We get holidays wrong. We
future, the emphasis naturally falls on have no clue how to repair friendships
the performance of rational executive or handle tricky employees.
tasks: machines that will help us
to calculate, plan, translate, divide, At present, there are some big
carry, move and build. anxieties around AI: what if machines
take over that are really versions of
But one should also envisage a very cunning, powerful people? This
rather different and far more exciting way of thinking is based – rightly – on
scenario, one in which computational our sense of how rational, executive
power isn’t merely directed at the intelligence can be impressive but
scientific and logistical dimensions of also horribly brutal: Vladimir Putin
existence, but also at its emotional is highly intelligent; Goebbels was
and psychological ones. It is time in some ways extremely smart.
to imagine not merely AI but also, Massively increasing rationality can be
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