One consideration that should be taken into account when deciding whether to promote the development of superintelligence is that...
- — Dr. Nick Bostrom
Program subject to change
- 9:00 AM
- Welcome by Symbolic Systems
- 9:05 AM
- Intro by Peter Thiel and Tyler Emerson
- 9:10 AM
- Ray Kurzweil – The Singularity: A hard or soft takeoff? Keynote
- 9:50 AM
- Douglas R. Hofstadter – Trying to Muse Rationally about the Singularity Scenario
- 10:20 AM
- Nick Bostrom – Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risks
- 10:40 AM
- Break
- 10:55 AM
- Sebastian Thrun – Toward human-level intelligence in autonomous cars
- 11:15 AM
- Cory Doctorow – Singularity or Dark Age? How the copyright wars threaten technological progress
- 11:35 AM
- K. Eric Drexler – Productive Nanosystems: Toward a super-exponential threshold in physical technology
- 11:55 AM
- Extended Break
- 12:55 PM
- Max More – Cognitive and Emotional Singularities: Will super-intelligence come with super-wisdom?
- 1:15 PM
- Christine L. Peterson – Bringing Humanity and the Biosphere through the Singularity
- 1:35 PM
- John Smart – Searching for the Big Picture: Systems Theories of Accelerating Change
- 1:55 PM
- Break
- 2:10 PM
- Eliezer Yudkowsky – The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion
- 2:40 PM
- Bill McKibben – Being Good Enough
- 3:10 PM
- Kurzweil Follow Up
- 3:35 PM
- Panel moderated by Steve Jurvetson and Peter Thiel
- 4:10 PM
- Audience Q&A
- 4:55 PM
- Close