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  1. J. Weizenbaum: “The Last Dream”, in  Is the Computer a Tool?, Edited by Bo Sundin, Almquist & Wiksell International, Stockholm-Sweden, 1980, p. 100–115.

  2. Bo Göranzon, The Practical Intellect, Santérus Academic Press, 2009, Revised version, previouisly published by Springer verlag, 1991 and 1993, p. 101.

  3. Ibid p. 101.

  4. Ibid p. 102.

  5. Anne Buttimer: Creativity and Context: a seminar report. Lunds studies in geography, Human Geography No. 50, Gleerup, 1983 and Daniel Denett : “The Role of the Computer Methaphor in Understanding the Mind”, in Heinz R. Pagels Editor: Computer Culture. The Scientific, Intellectual, and Social Impact of the Computer, The New Yourk Academy of Sciences, 1984, p 266–276.

  6. The expression”AI Safety Winter” is today used in books about a Strategy for a Superintelligence:

    • Max Tegmark, Life 3.0. Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017

    • Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence. Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, 2014

    • Nils J Nilsson, The Quest for Artificial Intelligence. A History of Ideas and Achievements, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

  7. Weizenbaum, 1980, p. 107, p. 114.

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Göranzon, B. Introduction to The Last Dream by Joseph Weizenbaum. AI & Soc 34, 177–194 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0827-7

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