Earl B. Hunt (January 8, 1933 – April 12 or 13, 2016)The Seattle Times
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psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

specializing in the study of

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and

artificial Artificiality (the state of being artificial, anthropogenic, or man-made) is the state of being the product of intentional human manufacture, rather than occurring naturally through processes not involving or requiring human activity. Connotati ...

intelligence. Within these fields he focused on individual differences in intelligence and the implications of these differences within a high-technology society. He was in partial retirement as emeritus professor of psychology and adjunct professor of computer science at the

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at the time of his death. His book ''Will We Be Smart Enough?'' discussed

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projections and

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research as they relate to predictions of possible future workplaces. He was president of the

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in 2011.

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Exploring Intelligence: Cognition in people, machines, and the future
1933 births 2016 deaths American computer scientists 20th-century American psychologists American artificial intelligence researchers American cognitive scientists Fellows of the American Psychological Association Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science University of Washington faculty Yale University alumni James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award recipients {{US-compu-bio-stub