The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment

A Springer publication.

Edited by Amnon Eden, Johnny Søraker, Jim Moor, and Eric Steinhart.

Authors' Blog to the book: The Singularity Hypothesis

Table of Contents

1. Amnon H. Eden, Eric Steinhart, David Pearce & James H. Moor, Singularity Hypotheses: An Overview 

Part 1: A singularity of artificial superintelligence

2. Luke Muehlhauser & Anna Salamon, Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import 

2A. Robin Hanson on Muehlhauser & Salamon's "Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import"

3. Itamar Arel, The Threat of a Reward-Driven Adversarial Artificial General Intelligence 

3A. William J. Rapaport on Arel's "The Threat of a Reward-Driven Adversarial Artificial General Intelligence"

4. Juergen Schmidhuber, New Millennium AI and the Convergence of History 2012

4A. Aaron Sloman on Schmidhuber's "New Millennium AI and the Convergence of History 2012" 

4B. Selmer Bringsjord, Alexander Bringsjord & Paul Bello on Schmidhuber's "New Millennium AI and the Convergence of History 2012"

5. Richard Loosemore & Ben Goertzel, Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable

5A. Peter Bishop on Loosemore & Goertzel's "Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable"

Part 2: Concerns about artificial superintelligence

6. Luke Muehlhauser & Louie Helm, The Singularity and Machine Ethics

6A. Jordi Vallverdú on Muehlhauser & Helm's "The Singularity and Machine Ethics"

7. Joshua Fox & Roman Yampolskiy, Artificial General Intelligence and the Human Mental Model

8. James Miller, Some Economic Incentives Facing a Business That Might Bring About a Technological Singularity

8A. Robin Hanson on Miller's "Some Economic Incentives Facing a Business That Might Bring About a Technological Singularity"

9. Steve Omohundro, Rationally-Shaped Artificial Intelligence

9A. Colin Allen & Wendell Wallach on Omohundro's "Rationally-Shaped Artificial Intelligence"

10. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Friendly Artificial Intelligence

10A. Colin Allen on Yudkowsky's "Friendly Artificial Intelligence"

Part 3: A singularity of posthuman superintelligence

11. David Pearce, The Biointelligence Explosion

11A. Illah R. Nourbakhsh on Pearce's "The Biointelligence Explosion"

12. Randal A. Koene, Embracing competitive balance: The case for substrate-independent minds and whole brain emulation

12A. Philip Rubin on Koene's "Embracing competitive balance: The case for substrate-independent minds and whole brain emulation"

13. Dennis Bray, Brain versus Machine

13A. Randal Koene on Bray's "Brain versus Machine"

14. David Roden, The Disconnection Thesis

Part 4: Skepticism

15. Eric Horvitz, AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures

15A. Itamar Arel on Horvitz's "AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures" 

15B. Vernor Vinge on Horvitz's "AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures"

16. Theodore Modis, Why the Singularity Cannot Happen

16A. Vernor Vinge on Modis' "Why the Singularity Cannot Happen" 

16B. Ray Kurzweil on Modis' "Why the Singularity Cannot Happen"

17. Alessio Plebe & Pietro Perconti, The Slowdown Hypothesis

17A. Eliezer Yudkowski on Plebe & Perconti's "The Slowdown Hypothesis"

18. Diane Proudfoot, Software Immortals-Science or Faith?

18A. Francis Heylinghen on Proudfoot's "Software Immortals-Science or Faith?"

19. Selmer Bringsjord, Alexander Bringsjord & Paul Bello, Belief in The Singularity is Fideistic

19A. Vernor Vinge on Bringsjord et al.'s "Belief in The Singularity is Fideistic"

19B. Michael Anissimov on Bringsjord et al.'s "Belief in The Singularity is Fideistic"

20. Eric Chaisson, A Singular Universe of Many Singularities: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context

20A. Theodore Modis on Chaisson's "A Singular Universe of Many Singularities: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context"