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Reading The Minds of Those Who Never Lived. Enhanced Beings: The Social and Ethical Challenges Posed by Super Intelligent AI and Reasonably Intelligent Humans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2019

JOHN HARRIS
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 28 , Special Issue 4: Clinical Neuroethics , October 2019 , pp. 585 - 591
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14. Nick Bostrom is one of very few who highlights this danger. See Bostrom, N. Superintelligence, Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2014, at 126. I first noted this danger in print in 1985. See notes 15 and 16 below.Google Scholar

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17. See note 16, Harris 1985. I then go on to explore more precisely what these features are.

18. I am indebted here to conversations with David Lawrence.

19. See note 14, Bostrom 2014, at 106–7.

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