Making the computer the villain in the invasion of privacy or encroachment on civil liberties simply diverts attention from the real dangers. Computer data banks can and must be given the highest degree of protection from abuse. But we must be careful also, that we do not employ such crude methods of protection as to deprive our society of important data it needs to understand its own social processes and to analyze its problemsPerhaps the most important problem of all about the computer is what it has done and will do to man's view of himself and his place in the universe. The most heated attacks on the computer are not focused on its possible economic effects its presumed destruction of job satisfaction or its threat to privacy and liberty but upon the claim that it causes people to be interviewed and to view themselves as 'machines'What the computer and the progress in artificial intelligence challenge is an ethic that rests on man's apartness from the rest of nature. An alternative ethic of course views man as a part of nature, governed by natural law subject to the forces of gravity and the demands of his body. The debate about artificial intelligence and the simulation of man's thinking is in considerable part a confrontation of these two views of man's place in the universe
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