Jobst Landgrebe
AI systems entrepreneur and philosopher
Critic Current evidence and current methods do not support the claims being made
Jobst Landgrebe is a German philosopher and AI systems entrepreneur. With Barry Smith he wrote Why Machines Will Never Rule the World (Routledge, 2022), which argues that human language and cognition are products of complex adaptive systems whose behavior cannot be captured by the mathematical models machine learning uses, and that machine general intelligence therefore never arrives.
For the mind uploading debate the decisive chapter is Digital Immortality, which treats the preserved-person promise as resting on the failed premise. If machines cannot reproduce general intelligence, a scanned mind running on a machine is a simulation of one output stream rather than a continuation of the person. This site covers the argument in the digital immortality under German scrutiny analysis.
His position on this site’s scale is Critic, source-backed by the book’s own thesis. The site’s substrate independence claim must answer his complexity argument directly, and the book states precisely where the burden sits.
Known for. Co-authoring Why Machines Will Never Rule the World, the complexity argument against machine general intelligence
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- Barry SmithUniversity at BuffaloFormal ontology, Basic Formal Ontology, co-authoring Why Machines Will Never Rule the World
- Ludger JansenRuhr-Universität BochumPhilosophy of mind and religion, co-editing Seele digital
- Rebekka A. KleinMartin-Luther-Universität Halle-WittenbergPhilosophy and ethics of technology and religion, co-editing Seele digital
- Michel BitbolCNRSPhenomenology and quantum physics, the critique of objectivist reduction, first-person knowledge as irreducible, collaboration with Claire Petitmengin
- Ned BlockDepartment of Philosophy, New York UniversityDistinction between Phenomenal and Access Consciousness (1995), Blockhead argument against behavioral tests, The Border Between Seeing and Thinking (2023)
- Selmer BringsjordRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteLogicist AI and consciousness, skepticism about behavioral tests for machine minds, the RAIR Lab, formal arguments against superintelligence claims
Jobst Landgrebe is listed with the other critics and skeptics, who hold that current evidence and current methods do not support the claims being made. The positions themselves are set out in the index of consciousness theories. Every researcher covered on this site is indexed in the directory of consciousness researchers.