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Intelligence is the human being's most striking feature. There is no consensually held scientific understanding of intelligence. The term is no less indeterminate in the sphere of artificial intelligence. Definitions are fluid in both cases. But technical applications and biotechnical developments do not wait for scientific clarity and definitional precision. The near future will bring significant advances in technical and biotechnical areas, including the genetic enhancement of human intelligence (HI) as well as artificial intelligence (AI). I show how developments in both areas will challenge human communities in various ways and that the danger of AI is distinctly political. The argument develops in six steps. (1) I compare and contrast artificial with human intelligence in general and (2) AI with HI genetically modified. Then I correlate and differentiate (3) emergent properties and distributed intelligence, both natural and artificial, as well as (4) neural function, both natural and artificial. (5) Finally, I identify the specifically political capabilities I see in HI and (6) political dangers that AI poses to them.

Responds to Roger S. Gottlieb (see abstract in SA 44:2). Rather than base the reconciliation between deep ecology & the Left on a spiritual foundation, as Gottlieb suggested, it is contended that a wider audience would be reached through an emphasis on the common principles of ecological entitlement & responsibility with the political language of right/duty claims. Interference with other life forms should occur only in the advancement of vital human needs, & in this context, consumption of resources must be diminished to attain compatibility with global environmental justice. Gottlieb's contention that the Left/green divide must be bridged is supported, yet a spiritual focus limits its accessibility. M. Greenberg