Native name Ted George Goertzel Institutions Rutgers University Child Ben Goertzel Institution Rutgers University | Fields Sociology Children Ben Goertzel Field Sociology | |
 | ||
Born November 20, 1942 (age 74) ( 1942-11-20 ) Thesis Brazilian student attitudes towards politics and education (1970) Known for Research on conspiracy theories Education Antioch College, Washington University in St. Louis People also search for Ben Goertzel, Albert Szymanski, Guy Burton Books Linus Pauling, Brazil's Lula: The Most Pop, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Turncoats & True Believers, Sociology: Class - Consciou | ||
Ted goertzel minimizing risks in developing artificial general intelligence
Ted George Goertzel (born November 20, 1942) is an American sociologist and emeritus professor of sociology at Rutgers University. He is known for studying conspiracy theories in science. In 1994, for example, he conducted a survey of 347 people in New Jersey, on the basis of which he argued that each belief a person has about a conspiracy theory serve as a basis for their beliefs about other such theories. He is the father of Ben Goertzel, with whom he co-authored the 1995 book Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics.
References
Ted Goertzel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA