Superintelligence, heuristics and embodied threats

Antonio Mastrogiorgio () and Riccardo Palumbo ()
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Antonio Mastrogiorgio: University of Rome “Unitelma Sapienza”
Riccardo Palumbo: “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara

Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2025, vol. 24, issue 1, No 7, 109-123

Abstract: Abstract The superintelligence debate raises the issue of the existential risk for human civilization posed by superintelligent artificial systems, which, in the long term, could surpass human intelligence. This debate, focusing on the computational dimension of intelligence, overlooks the current trends in behavioral sciences and bio-inspired robotics, emphasizing that cognition is embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended, and works through interactions with the environment. In this contribution, we discuss the potential threat arising from a near-future generation of cheap-but-effective artificial systems that are computationally poor but can enact intelligent behaviors through their embodied interactions with the environment.

Keywords: Superintelligence; 4E cognition; Heuristics; Existential risk; Transparency; AI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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