An interview with Hugo Award-winning science fiction icon Vernor Vinge, who’s ideas have done much to further serious discourse around Machine Intelligence and the Singularity.
“Oftentimes, for many of us, our way into the world of science is through the night skies, through astronomy, through NASA. We’re drawn to space and frontiers only limited by our imaginations. “
Well known cyberpunk author John Shirley recently gave a talk at TEDx Brussels in which he discusses two ideas of The Singularity, one true and one false, as well as a dark vision of the near future.
In 2011, Alexander Kruel (XiXiDu) started a Q&A style interview series on LessWrong asking various experts in artificial intelligence about their perception of AI risks. He convened what was in essence a council of expert advisors to discuss AI development and risk.