The ‘artificial intelligentsia’ and its discontents: an exploration of 1970s attitudes to the ‘social responsibility of the machine intelligence worker’

In 1972, ten members of the machine intelligence research community travelled to Lake Como, Italy, for a conference on the ‘social implications of machine intelligence research’. This paper explores their varied and contradictory approaches to this topic. Researchers, including John McCarthy, Donald...

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Main Authors: Rosamund Powell, Syed Mustafa Ali, Stephanie Dick, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-01-01
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X23000085/type/journal_article