re: "Who will be AI's first billionaire?" (BP, Opinion, February 20, 2023)
Dear editor,
Much as I enjoyed Tyler Cowen's reflections on whether the body of rapidly evolving AI entities present a tool more like social media or more akin to the Internet and printing press, that same accelerating evolution suggests that perhaps a fundamental assumption might betray a misplaced faith in humankind's continued accidental pre-eminence on the planet.
Need the person "Who will be AI's first billionaire" be a human being? Perhaps a machine will shortly show that they can also beat us in that arena of traditionally human, competitive game playing. There is, after all, more to being a person than necessarily, or merely, having human DNA in living biological cells forged by the original, perfectly mindless version of evolution that had held sway on Earth until very recently.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on February 23, 2023, under the title "Might not be human" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2513191/might-not-be-human
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