Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and
driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and
military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell ...

What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this
event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each
generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence ...

All else being equal, not many people would prefer to destroy the world. Even faceless
corporations, meddling governments, reckless scientists, and other agents of doom, require
a world in which to achieve their goals of profit, order, tenure, or other villainies. If our ...

ABSTRACT. The future of humanity is often viewed as a topic for idle speculation. Yet our
beliefs and assumptions on this subject matter shape decisions in both our personal lives
and public policy–decisions that have very real and sometimes unfortunate consequences ...

Abstract The underlying paradigm for cosmology is theoretical physics. In this paper we
explore ways this framework might be extended with insights from information and
computation studies and evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) biology. We also briefly ...

Abstract This paper discusses the relation between intelligence and motivation in artificial
agents, developing and briefly arguing for two theses. The first, the orthogonality thesis,
holds (with some caveats) that intelligence and final goals (purposes) are orthogonal axes ...

Abstract In this chapter we review the evidence for and against three claims: that (1) there is
a substantial chance we will create human-level AI before 2100, that (2) if human-level AI is
created, there is a good chance vastly superhuman AI will follow via an “intelligence ...

The development of human-level AI has been a core goal of the AI field since its inception,
though at present it occupies only a fraction of the field's efforts. To help understand the
viability of this goal, this article presents an assessment of expert opinions regarding ...

The possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues, related both to
ensuring that such machines do not harm humans and other morally relevant beings, and to
the moral status of the machines themselves. This chapter surveys some of the ethical ...

This paper attempts to formalize and to address the'leakproofing'of the Singularity problem
presented by David Chalmers. The paper begins with the definition of the Artificial
Intelligence Confinement Problem. After analysis of existing solutions and their ...