Parallel Intelligence in CPSSs: Being, Becoming, and Believing

The recent debut and success of ChatGPT have brought up renewed debates and desires for artificial general intelligence (AGI) amid fears and anxieties of potential disruptions to our humanity and social values, as witnessed by the call from tech celebrities for a pause in the development of ChatGPT-style AGI tools. At the IEEE IS’ AI and CPSS Department, we would like to initiate cautious, balanced, hopefully deep investigations to address various related issues on the impact and significance of intelligent science and technology to our economy and society. Let’s start with the “three Bs” and “ACP” for parallel intelligence in CPSSs: Being by artificial systems (A), Becoming through computational experiments (C), and Believing with parallel execution (P).