The Singularity Summit. Thinking About Thinking.

October 3-4, 2009, New York, NY

The Singuarity Summit is the premier conference on the Singularity. As we get closer to the Singularity, each year's conference is better than the last.

– Ray Kurzweil
CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
Artificial Intelligence is probably the most important technology in humanity's future. Now is the time to be looking closely at its benefits and risks.

– Peter Thiel
President, Clarium Capital
The future is rushing at us fast. Bringing together great minds to make sense of what's coming is critical.

– Peter Diamandis
Chair/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
– Outside Montgomery Theater
– Inside Montgomery Theater

The Singularity Summit 2009

The Singularity Summit 2009 is the fourth annual gathering focused on what is quickly emerging as one of the most debated issues in the world of scientific and technological progress -- the prospect of a technological singularity. This year, rather than exclusively focusing on robotics and AI, the Summit will branch out to include speakers in a wider variety of areas, including finance, decision theory, quantum computing, neuroscience, consciousness, business, and heuristics and biases.

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Past Summits

Founded in 2006 by Tyler Emerson, Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Thiel, the inaugural summit was held at Stanford, the first academic symposium focused on singularity dialogue.

Past speakers have included Doug Hofstadter (author of Gödel, Escher, Bach), Peter Norvig (Google Director of Research), Sebastian Thrun (Stanford AI Lab Director), and Rodney Brooks (MIT Professor of Robotics)

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