Singularity Summit 2009
Date: 3-4 October
Speaker(s): Peter Thiel, Ray Kurzweil, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Marcus Hutter, Michael Nielsen, David Chalmers and others
Venue: New York
PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS NOT AN FHI EVENT
With only six weeks to go until our first Singularity Summit on the East Coast -- in New York on October 3-4 -- SIAI has been getting geared up in preparation. With your help, this will be the year when the Singularity goes mainstream, with heavy coverage in the global media. A recent front page story in the New York Times discussed both the Singularity and growing concern about the potential risks of artificial intelligence. The AAAI, the leading artificial intelligence association, convened a panel to evaluate long-term risks of AI, with AAAI President Eric Horvitz noting the rise of the Singularity Institute in explaining the formation of the panel. Forbes magazine ran a major report on AI, to which SIAI President Michael Vassar contributed. A documentary on the life and ideas of SIAI Board of Directors member Ray Kurzweil, Transcendent Man, debuted in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. As public attention increases, space for serious discussion opens up.
I hope you will consider coming to this year's Singularity Summit. We have a great speaker lineup, including technology luminaries Peter Thiel and Ray Kurzweil, world-renowned AI researchers Jurgen Schmidhuber and Marcus Hutter, quantum computation specialist Michael Nielsen, eminent philosopher of mind David Chalmers, and many more.
Your Summit ticket is a tax deductible donation to SIAI, almost all of which goes to support our continuing research and outreach efforts.
The Summit also offers an unusual chance to socialize with an extraordinary audience: a smart, strategic, and business-savvy group of long-term thinkers.
If you have friends, family members, or business associates who might be interested in the Summit, invite them to join you. They’ll have a good time; they’ll see what all the fuss is about; and you'll benefit from a referral discount for group purchases.
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