Yudkowsky to Speak on Global Catastropic Risks, Nov. 14
October 15th, 2008 –
SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky will speak at the workshop Global Catastropic Risk: Building a Resilient Civilization on Nov. 14 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and the Lifeboat Foundation, this workshop will address threats to the future of humanity, natural and man-made, and the steps we can take to reduce the risks and build a more resilient civilization.
It will precede Convergence 08, November 15-16 at the same venue, co-sponsored by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Hello Joshua – I apologize for bothering you, but I’m trying to track down an old essay (perhaps a white paper?) I read that concerned machines arguing for their rights. The premise was that computers would be able to argue that they were intelligent, and request legal protections, before they were actually intelligent. Do you know where I could find this paper, or its author? If not, could you point me in the direction of some people who might know the answer?
Thank you for your time.
“Biocyberethics: should we stop a company from unplugging an intelligent computer?”
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0594.html?printable=1
This is the closest I can think of, though It doesn’t quite meet your description,
Oh sadly I missed that date for just a couple of days, so I would like to encourage you to take a look to the problem of the LHC at CERN. The logical structure of the problem with it is quite similar to that of “strong AI”, except the fact that the machine is run by said-of humans, instead the machines being ethical instances (sometimes human).
Here at the singularity institute there is quite some insight and power to put a discussion about the CERN forward in the proper way, I suppose.