Alan Turing’s broadcast script “Can Digital Computers Think?” (1951) asks where we should be if a machine thought more intelligently than we do, says that even if machines were kept subservient we should as a species feel greatly humbled, and compares the possibility of being superseded by the pig or the rat.
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Can Digital Computers Think? → bears on → Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence