The Education of Machines: A New History of the Mind

What are the social and economic consequences of developing machine intelligence, and how will our lives change in the coming decades? In addressing these questions, well-known Russian specialist in artificial intelligence Sergey Shumsky uses a historical approach, tracking the shift of technological eras up to the present day.

The emergence of machine intelligence marks the beginning of a transition to a new mode of life and a new digital economy. But this revolution, like any other, is fraught with many risks—from the loss of social stability in individual countries and on the international stage to existential challenges connected with the loss by some people and by humanity as a whole of control over their own fate. That is why it’s crucial for artificial reason to become as close as possible to the human in terms of social instincts and humanistic values. Therefore, the author insists, we need a reliable practical program to shape human-like artificial psychology and develop a new science of “machine upbringing.”