The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible (Arthur C. Clarke's 2nd law)

Essays & Commentary

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

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 (available online)
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 VallverdĂș on Muehlhauser & Helm's "The Singularity and Machine Ethics"
7. Roman V. Yampolskiy & Joshua Fox, 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 (available online)
20A. Theodore Modis on Chaisson's "A Singular Universe of Many Singularities: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context"

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