Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Seth Lloyd: Wrong, but More Relevant Than Ever -- ch. 2 Judea Pearl: The Limitations of Opaque Learning Machines -- ch. 3 Stuart Russell: The Purpose Put into the Machine -- ch. 4 George Dyson: The Third Law -- ch. 5 Daniel C. Dennett: What Can We Do? -- ch. 6 Rodney Brooks: The Inhuman Mess Our Machines Have Gotten Us Into -- ch. 7 Frank Wilczek: The Unity of Intelligence -- ch. 8 Max Tegmark: Let's Aspire to More Than Making Ourselves Obsolete -- ch. 9 Jaan Tallinn: Dissident Messages -- ch. 10 Steven Pinker: Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas -- ch. 11 David Deutsch: Beyond Reward and Punishment -- ch. 12 Tom Griffiths: The Artificial Use of Human Beings -- ch. 13 Anca Dragan: Putting the Human into the Al Equation -- ch. 14 Chris Anderson: Gradient Descent -- ch. 15 David Kaisen "Information" for Wiener, for Shannon, and for Us -- ch. 16 Neil Gershenfeld: Scaling Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human.

First published: 2019. Includes index.