Free Will and Morality , letter to the editor of the New York Times (6th of 7 letters), 22 April 2007.

[Message Contains No Recognizable Symbols]. Singularity fiction. April 2007.

Democratic Transhumanism 2.0 by James Hughes. I highly recommend this essay for its excellent politics of transhuman technologies. April 2007.

Comment to the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering. Find 'Bill Hibbard' in this web page. Januray 2007.

The Technology of Mind and a New Social Contract, a chapter to appear in the forthcoming transhumanism book edited by Mike LaTorra and Sky Marsen, and presented at Human Rights for the 21st Century. November 2006.

Comment on the 2006 Singularity Summit. The Summit should include an advocate of regulating, but not banning, AI. May 2006.

Critique of the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Machine Ethics. Problems with the review process and the content of this symposium. December 2005.

Critique of the SIAI Collective Volition Theory. December 2005.

Voluntary Versus Mandatory Privacy Protection for Web Search. December 2005.

"It is all too evident that our moral thinking simply has not been able to keep pace with the speed of scientific advancement. Yet the ramifications of this progress are such that it is no longer adequate to say that the choice of what to do with this knowledge should be left in the hands of individuals." - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in the New York Times on 12 November 2005, the day he spoke to the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The technology of mind will have profound consequences for humanity, and humanity must be educated about and exercise collective, democratic control over this technology.

A Review of Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. A good book, but it fails to adequately address the dangers of AI. October 2005.

The Ethics and Politics of Super-Intelligent Machines. My ideas about the ethics and politics of AI. July 2005.

Social Security and the coming Productivity Explosion, submitted as an op-ed to the New York Times, 7 November 2004.

Consciousness and Souls, letter to the editor of the New York Times, 12 September 2004.

Reinforcement Learning as a Context for Integrating AI Research. My ideas about how intelligence works, presented at the 2004 AAAI Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research. July 2004.

Critique of the SIAI Guidelines on Friendly AI. May 2003.

Should Standard Oil Own the Roads? Thoughts on current social issues of information technology. February 2003.

Super-intelligent Machines. My first publication about intelligent machines, this defines my basic position. February 2001.

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