Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence without Fear

This is a revised and expanded second edition of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World. Its core argument remains the same: that an artificial intelligence (AI) that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) – is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim:

1. Human intelligence is a capability of the human brain and central nervous system, which is a complex dynamic system
2. Systems of this sort ca...