Possible Minds. Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

More than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ended with a warning : "We shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions.... The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door." In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener's words again.
In Possible Minds, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where Al might be taking us.