> The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers. -- Konrad Zuse Another man very much worth rea

> The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers. -- Konrad Zuse Another man very much worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum > His influential 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason displays his ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out his case: while Artificial Intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom. Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. It is the capacity to choose that ultimately makes us human. Comprehensive human judgment is able to include non-mathematical factors, such as emotions. Judgment can compare apples and oranges, and can do so without quantifying each fruit type and then reductively quantifying each to factors necessary for comparison.