“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn, and that create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until—in a visible future—the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.”

This quote is an accurate reflection of artificial intelligence (AI) these days. If you follow the latest trends, you know AI will have, or will soon approximate, human intelligence. AI has become so impressive that it has been awarded its own determiner: “the artificial intelligence.”

No, it may even surpass human intelligence! Artificial general intelligence (AGI), also called human‑level intelligence AI, is argued to match or surpass human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. And that is something to think about hard for us, thinking animals.

These days, it is easy to be impressed, concerned, or even frightened about the developments in AI. One development rapidly follows another. But it is also important, and increasingly so, to be critical thinkers. Given the

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