Is Strong AI Possible, and Desirable?

The upcoming topic will be "Is Strong AI Possible, and Desirable?" Background and Zoom meeting details are below.

Wikipedia has the following entries on strong AI, or AGI, and artificial intelligence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an article on AI:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/

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