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Hubert Dreyfus
Berkeley phenomenologist; AI critic (1929–2017)
UC Berkeley phenomenologist whose 1972 'What Computers Can't Do' was the first serious philosophical critique of symbolic AI. Foundational reference for AI-skeptic arguments grounded in embodied cognition.
past Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley
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AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgued AI must be embodied and embedded in skilful coping, not symbol manipulation. His critique anticipated key features of the embodied-cognition movement and recent skepticism of pure-LLM AGI.
We do not start out with explicit rules and then learn how to apply them. We learn by example, by skill, by being in the world.
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