Saturday, October 3

9:00 am

Introduction
Michael Vassar, Singularity Institute

9:05 am

Shaping the Intelligence Explosion
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute

9:35 am

Technical Roadmap for Whole Brain Emulation
Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute

10:00 am

The time is now: As a species and as individuals we need whole brain emulation
Randal Koene, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation

10:25 am

Technological Convergence Leading to Artificial General Intelligence
Itamar Arel, University of Tennessee

10:50 am

Coffee Break

11:10 am

Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond
Ben Goertzel, Novamente

11:35 am

Neural Substrates of Consciousness and the 'Conscious Pilot' Model
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona

11:55 am

Quantum Computing: What It Is, What It Is Not, What We Have Yet to Learn
Michael Nielsen

12:35 am

DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Ned Seeman, New York University

1:00 pm

Lunch

2:20 pm

Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Humor
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA

3:00 pm

Conversation on the Singularity
Stephen Wolfram and Gregory Benford

3:30 pm

Simulation and the Singularity
David Chalmers, Australian National University

4:15 pm

Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation
Gary Drescher

4:45 pm

Coffee break

5:05 pm

Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function
Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab

5:30 pm

Foundations of Intelligent Agents
Marcus Hutter, Australian National University

5:55 pm

Cognitive Ability: Past and Future Enhancements and Implications
William Dickens, Northeastern University

6:30 pm

The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies

October 4th

8:00 am

More than Moore: Comparing Forecasts of Technological Progress
Bela Nagy, Santa Fe Institute

8:20 am

The "Petaflop Macroscope"
Gary Wolf, Wired Magazine

8:40 am

Collaborative Networks In Scientific Discovery
Michael Nielsen

9:00 am

How Does Society Identify Experts and When Does It Work?
Robin Hanson, George Mason University

9:20 am

Future of Scientific Method Panel: Gary Wolf, Michael Nielsen, Robin Hanson. Moderator: James Jorasch

9:50 am

Coffee Break

10:15 am

Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity
Gregory Benford, University of California- Irvine

10:40 am

Critics of the Singularity
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies

11:10 am

The Finger of AI: Automated Electrical Vehicles and Oil Independence
Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation

11:55 am

Lunch

1:15 pm

The Fallibility and Improvability of the Human Mind
Gary Marcus, New York University

1:40 pm

Macroeconomics and Singularity
Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital Management

2:20 pm

Venture Capitalist Panel: Peter Thiel, David Rose, Mark Gorenberg. Moderator: Robert Pisani

2:50 pm

Coffee Break

3:15 pm

The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences
Aubrey De Grey, SENS Foundation

3:40 pm

Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity Institute

4:10 pm

Discussion: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Aubrey De Grey, Peter Thiel. Moderator: Michael Vassar

4:40 pm

How much it matters to know what matters: A back of the envelope calculation
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute

5:00 pm

Summit ends