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2014 | Is Brain Emulation Dangerous? (Eckersley, P. & Sandberg, A. (2014). Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 4(3), pp. 170-194.)
Brain emulation is a hypothetical but extremely transformative technology which has a non-zero chance of appearing during the next century. This paper investigates whether such a technology would also have any predictable characteristics that give it a chance of being catastrophically dangerous, and whether there are any policy levers which might be used to make it safer.
Is Brain Emulation Dangerous? (Eckersley, P., & Sandberg, A. 2013. Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 4(3), 170-194)
http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle.fullcontentlink:pdfeventlink/$002fj$002fjagi.2013.4.issue-3$002fjagi-2013-0011$002fjagi-2013-0011.pdf?t:ac=j$002fjagi.2013.4.issue-3$002fjagi-2013-0011$002fjagi-2013-0011.xml
Dewey, D. (2012). A representation theorem for decisions about causal models. In Artificial General Intelligence (pp. 60-68). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
http://www.danieldewey.net/representation-theorem-for-decisions-about-causal-models.pdf
Superintelligence
Superintelligence, by Professor Nick Bostrom, has come to be seen as essential reading for those interested in the role artificial intelligence may play in the 21st century. You can buy a copy online or at most bookstores.
£10 million grant for new Centre for the Future of Intelligence
A new research centre to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence has been launched this week after a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust.
2015 | Taking superintelligence seriously. (Brundage, M. (2015). Futures, 72, 32-35.)
A new book by Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, is reviewed. Superintelligence explores the future of artificial intelligence and related technologies and the risks they may pose to human civilization. The book ably demonstrates the potential for serious thinking aimed at the long-term future.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies now released in UK
“Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. Superintelligence charts the submerged rocks of the future with unprecedented detail. It marks the beginning of a new era.” – Stuart Russell
Superintelligence recommended by Financial Times
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, has been placed at the top of the Financial Times scientific summer reading list, stating that “Bostrom … casts a philosopher’s eye at the past, present and future of artificial intelligence.”
Oxford Martin School Seminar: “Containing the intelligence explosion” by Dr. Joanna Bryson
Is artificial intelligence an existential threat to humanity? On May 13th, Dr. Joanna Bryson will be delivering a lecture at the Oxford Martin School discussing the notion of an intelligence explosion.