Alan Turing wrote his seminal paper on “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in 1950 (http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf). This spawned many years of research
on what became known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Consider the world today. How do we
interact with AI every day? What tasks have we assigned to AI programs? What impact is AI
having on our lives? Who are the biggest users of AI? Now consider AI in the future. Stephen
Hawking has been quoted as saying “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the
end of the human race”. Why does he think this? What do other scientists say? What do you
think? Is AI something that we should be pursuing or do we need to put limits on how far we can
go? What are the benefits and risks?
