Singularity Notes

Bill Hibbard

The Middle Class Squeeze, submitted as an op-ed to the New York Times, 28 August 2008.

The Skills to Survive Globalization, letter to the editor of the New York Times (1st of 6 letters), 5 May 2008.

The Need for Regulation to Prevent Future Financial Crises, submitted as an op-ed to the New York Times, 26 March 2008.

[Message Contains No Recognizable Symbols]: the Movie. A story about a technological singularity. March 2008.

AI Politics, talk at the AGI-08 Workshop on the Sociocultural, Ethical and Futurological Implications of Artificial General Intelligence (here's a video of my talk). March 2008.

Ben Goertzel's opening talk at AGI-08 included this funny pair of slides (March 2008): What we expected in 2001 , and What we got .

Adversarial Sequence Prediction, paper at The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) (here's a video of my talk, and a video of the Q&A panel for my session). March 2008.

Open Source AI, paper at the AGI-08 Workshop on the Sociocultural, Ethical and Futurological Implications of Artificial General Intelligence. March 2008.

"During the Q & A I asked Venter why he spends so much of his time speaking in public, 150 talks a year. He said he sees that as part of his scientific work, to prepare the public for the big changes coming. He wants to avoid repeating the mistakes made with genetically modified crops (GMOs), where there was insufficient transparency and regulation, and irrational opposition by environmentalists, which crippled a crucial field. The public should feel it is included in every stage of genetic science and emerging biotechnology." -- Stewart Brand, commenting on Craig Venter's talk at the Long Now Foundation on 25 Feb 2008. The same logic applies to artificial intelligence - the public must be educated about and exercise collective, democratic control over this technology.

The Technology of Mind and a New Social Contract, in the Journal of Evolution & Technology, and presented in May 2007 at Human Rights for the 21st Century (here's an MP3 audio file of my talk). January 2008.

New Technologies and Economic Growth, letter to the editor of the Sunday Business section of the New York Times, 26 August 2007.

The Simulation Hypothesis, my letter to the editor of Science Times section of the New York Times, not published, about the hypothesis that our universe is a simulation. August 2007.

I highly recommend Artificial General Intelligence: A Gentle Introduction and Suggested Education for Future AGI Researchers by Pei Wang. June 2007.

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]. A story about a technological singularity subject to the constraint that natural human authors are unable to depict the actions and dialog of super-intelligent minds. In particular, the languages of super-intelligent minds will be unintelligible to natural humans. April 2007.

I highly recommend Democratic Transhumanism 2.0 and Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats by James Hughes. April 2007.

Comment to the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering. January 2007.

The Next Miracle. Submitted to Vanity Fair's 2006 Essay Contest. September 2006.

Reply to AIRisk, reply to Eliezer Yudkowsky's article on AI risks, June 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.

A Manned Mission to Mars is a Bad Idea At This Time, letter to the editor of the New York Times, 30 July 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.

Consciousness is a Simulator with a Memory for Solving the Temporal Credit Assignment Problem in Reinforcement Learning. My ideas about consciousness, presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness. April 2002.

The Introductory Chapter of Götterdämmerung. My attempt to communicate the drama of the singularity. Summer 2001.

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

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