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"