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Quotes from Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines — John McCarthy

1927–2011 United States

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When we program a computer to make choices intelligently after determining its options, examining their consequences, and deciding which is most favorable or most moral or whatever, we must program it to take an attitude towards its freedom of choice essentially isomorphic to that which a human must take to his own.

Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines (1979)

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