The Honorable Dr. Dale Pierre Layman is recognized by Continental Who's Who

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Dec 05, 2016, 04:46 ET

PLAINFIELD, Ill., Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honorable Dr. Dale Pierre Layman announces the publication of Remember the Titanic: Call For An Anti-Robotic, Counter-Revolution.

Dr. Layman is a highly decorated academic, earning multiple high-level degrees from the University of Michigan Medical School, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Academie Europeenne D'Informatisation and World Information Distributed University, where he received the first Grand Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine degree to be awarded in the United States.

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Today, Dr. Layman is Founder of Robowatch, LLC, an advocacy group which examines the state of human rights as a result of the threat of artificial intelligence. He educates the public on artificial intelligence as well as robotics, and their potential effects upon human beings.

While earning his impressive, unparalleled academic credentials, Dr. Layman worked on several public initiatives and had several pieces published, according to his biography from Robowatch.org. By 1999, he had two textbooks and articles for the likes of the Michigan Literary Review published - when he founded Robowatch.

"We are in grave danger of being taken over by artificial intelligence," Dr. Layman said. "We must walk in the shoes of the Good Shepherd and try to inform all Mankind."

Since the days of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, theories surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) have circulated society, according to LiveScience.com.

"The beginnings of modern AI can be traced to classical philosophers' attempts to describe human thinking as a symbolic system," said Tanya Lewis, LiveScience.com Staff Writer. "But the field of AI wasn't formally founded until 1956, at a conference at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where the term 'artificial intelligence' was coined."

Dr. Layman fully believes in the importance of spreading the message to those outside of the field – as he feels getting the word out about AI is his calling."The reason we are keeping a watchful eye, is because hardly anyone else outside of the fields of robotics and computing seems to understand the gravity of the potential negative impacts of the advancements of certain kinds of robotics."

As a result of his efforts to further the cause and mission of Robowatch, Dr. Layman has been featured as a speaker at several conferences. He presented "Facing the Robotic Challenge: Coping with Growing Computer Dominance Over The Access, Writing, and Distribution of Information" at the National Convention of Text and Academic Authors in 1999; "White Knight/Black Knight – Will the Real Robot Please Stand Up?" at the Technology Symposium, 2008 World Forum at St. Catherine's College at Oxford University, England; and "Robots and Talking Computers Stealing Our Jobs! What Work Will We Humans Still Be Allowed to Do?" at the 2012 World Forum.

Dr. Layman's notable, relevant published works include the Foreword for the 2003 Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics; Robowatch 2002: Mankind at the Brink for the 2002 London Diplomatic Academy Newsletter in 2002; The Future of Life Summit for TIME Magazine; The Robowatch Report: A Call For Debate; Barack Obama: President Of The Robots?; and Robots: Human Job Destroyers? all published in the Fall of 2014.

Another section of Dr. Layman's resume includes several appointments and teaching opportunities. He served as a histological technician in Neuropathology as well as a Teaching Fellow in Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School while he was a student there, from 1971-1974. He joined the faculty of Joliet Junior College in 1975 where he taught full-time as a Professor of Medical Terminology, Human Anatomy and Physiology.

Dr. Layman later moved to part-time in 2007, but stayed on the faculty until 2010 and is now a Retired Professor Emeritus, very busy taking classes in computer science. During his time at Joliet Junior College, he "proposed and conducted surveys for formal name change of Joliet Junior College, to re-name it Joliet Pioneer College," he was a Candidate for President of the Faculty Union in 2005 and was unanimously elected as Vice Chairman of the Institutional Senate from 2005-2006. Most recently in 2013, Dr. Layman was named to the President's Circle – Silver Level of Human Rights Watch, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Perhaps most notably, Dr. Layman was "authorized to address the Emerging Global Problem—Homo sapiens evolving into Robo sapiens, a competing cyborgean species." He presented two different thesis papers to the United Nations on the subject.

To round up Dr. Layman's accomplishments, he has amassed a multitude of awards and honors beginning at the advent of his career up until present-day. He was named to the societies of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi, earned his "Honorable" distinction when he was named Deputy Governor of the American Biographical Institute (ABI), honored as one of the 500 Greatest Geniuses of the 21^st Century by Genius Laureates, earned the Tesla Award for Communication in the Field and was named Intellectual of the Year 2010.

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