I Compute

We talk--sometimes with hope, sometimes with fear--about computers learning to think. Regardless of our emotions around the topic, it seems less and less likely that "strong" artificial intelligence is a real possibility.

What we don't talk about, however, is the danger that in our rush to embrace technological fixes for the problems of education, of the environment, of voting, we will forget how to think.

Computers are unlikely to become too much like us.

We are more likely to become too much like computers.