The Myth of Machine Intelligence

This book explains, in terms that non-experts can easily understand, why the fashionable hopes and fears often vested in AI are illusory. Machines, including computers, will never be able to think, much less plot to take over the world and dispose of the humans who created them. Machines cannot understand anything, and they cannot have emotions or desires.

The authors demonstrate that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence―sometimes called artificial general...