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[The Speculist] Michael Anissimov writes that achieving Friendly AI is a serious proposition -- so serious, in fact, that we might ought to go ahead and pay somebody to do it.

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Answers.comhttp://www.answers.com [Answers.com] Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: Information ...: Many, even skeptics of the near-term feasibility of AI, saw Yudkowsky's work as a valuable contribution to the long-term goal of constructing benevolent goal systems in self-modifying AI. Creating Friendly AI particularly emphasized that AIs would lack any complex inbuilt tendencies aside from what was painstakingly programmed into them, including human-typical tendencies such as arrogance, reactionism, competition, empathy, philosophical contemplation, or even the very notion of an observer-centered goal system.

http://mmothra.blogspot.com [Corpus Mmothra] Singularitarianism: Cadged from the technopagan "magic(k) for the modern world" community on LiveJournal. At the core of Singularitarian philosophy and values lies the following proposition: Smarter-than-human, kinder-than-human intelligence is possible and desirable.

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