John McCarthy
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.
jmc@cs.stanford.edu, http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
AI needs many ideas that have hitherto been studied only by philosophers. This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new forms when thought about in terms of how to design a robot. Some approaches to philosophy are helpful and others are not.