title: Why is AI so scary? creator: Anderson, Dr. Michael subject: Artificial Intelligence description: This article is a review of the following three books, and explores the question of why artificial intelligence is viewed with fear by many people. Thomas M. Georges Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), 2004. Stefan Helmreich Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press), 2000. Anne Foerst God in the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God (New York: Dutton), 2004. date: 2005 type: Preprint type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/4577/1/ai_fear.pdf identifier: Anderson, Dr. Michael (2005) Why is AI so scary? [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/4577/