Yudkowsky speaks at the Global Catastropic Risks conference
July 28th, 2008 –
SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky spoke on “(Artificial) Intelligence: The Wild Card” at the Global Catastrophic Risks conference, sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.
Yudkowsky’s essays “Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks” and “Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” will appear in the related book, Global Catastrophic Risks,” ed. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008).
Ronald Bailey covered the conference, including Yudkowsky’s talk, at Reason Magazine Online.
How can the 7th age of computing play its part in Global Risk ?
will that effect be positive or negative?