When analyzing how humans make decisions, one is analyzing the fundamental constructs of the mind. In order to do this, one must consider what it is to be a human being
The Turing tests presents the question that if a computer can behave as a human being, then the machine could be considered intelligent. Moreover, with intelligence, questions of consciousness arise: Disembodied AI has been extensively studied since the adven of the digital computer.
As explained previously in the discussion of expert systems. The concepts of an inteligent computer can have many benefis for society; however, many contemporary science fiction writers construct future worlds in which an artificial intelligence has taken over. This point will be further explained in our fiction section, but one must consider the positive and negative consequences of a machine with intelligence.