AI and Ia: Utopia or Extinction?. This item is unavailable.AI and Ia: Utopia or Extinction?

Will advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) or IA (Intelligence Amplification) lead to the extinction of the human race as we know it? Or, will superintelligence lead to utopia? In this collection of thoughtful essays, we must first get clear on the question: is artificial intelligence actually intelligent or not? Only with an affirmative answer could our techies proceed toward their goal: the creation of a superintelligence that leads through transhumanism to a posthuman entity that would replace today's human. Should today's moderately intelligent human species voluntarily go extinct to make way for a more intelligent species to succeed us in evolutionary history? These scientific questions are addressed in this volume in light of their theological, ethical, and social implications.

Bio. Ted Peters teaches systematic theology and ethics at the Graduate eo- logical Union in Berkeley, California, USA. He co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, at the Center for eology and the Natural Sciences. He is author of GodThe World's Future (Fortress, 3rd ed, 2015) and co-author of Evolution from Creation to New Creation (Abingdon 2002). Along with two colleagues he is editing a new book, Religious Transhumanism and its Critics (Lexington). He is author of a fiction thriller with a Transhumanist plot, Cyrus Twelve, with Aprocryphile Press. Visit his website: TedsTimelyTake. com.