Reason.com: Will the Singularity Kill Us?
Posted by Andrew on October 8th, 2009Ron Bailey at Reason.com attended the Singularity Summit on NYC and was presented with several scenarios of the future. Many of them were quite frightening.
As the Singularity Institute’s Anna Salamon explained in her opening presentation at the summit, smarter intelligences might choose to get rid of us because our matter is not optimally arranged to achieve their goals.
Fun stuff. Let’s hope our matter is as optimally arranged as possible.
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