John McCarthy provides an overview of artificial intelligence for the lay reader in the following document.
- McCarthy, J. (2007). What is Artificial Intelligence? Retrieved from:
- http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/whatisai/whatisai.pdf
Poole and Mackworth (2017) authored a book (now in its second edition) describing artificial intelligence and provide it freely online. While much of the book is very technical in nature, the introductory chapters are particularly interesting for psychologists with an interest in the field.
- Poole, D. L. & Mackworth, A. K. (2017). Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from:
- http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/whatisai/whatisai.pdf
Ray Kurzweil responds to fears regarding the progress in artificial intelligence in an article in Time magazine online.
- Kurzweil, R. (2014, 19 December). Don’t fear Artificial Intelligence. Time. Retrieved from:
- http://time.com/3641921/dont-fear-artificial-intelligence/
Stanford University is conducting a 100-year-long study on the impact that artificial intelligence will have on many aspects of life, including psychology. The study is described briefly here.
- Cesare, C. (2014, 16 December). Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence. Stanford News. Retrieved from:
- http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/ai-century-study-121614.html