The Singularity Summit

August 14-15, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Hyatt Regency

Since automation and Artificial Intelligence are already upon us and are not now reversable, we must deal with both of those elements and consider how we might implement imperatives to protect us from becoming obsolete.

– James Randi
Founder, JREF
The Singularity 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
Futurists like to predict how genetic engineering and computational implants will allow humans to become a super-species, but few examine the application of similar technologies to nonhumans.

– Irene Pepperberg
Founder, Alex Foundation

The Singularity Summit 2010 > Past Summits

2009 Summit

The 2009 Singularity Summit was held on October 3-4, 2009, at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Speakers included David Chalmers, Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram, Gregory Benford, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, Juergen Schmidhuber, and Aubrey de Grey.

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David Chalmers: Simulation and the Singularity

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

Aubrey de Grey: The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences

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2008 Summit

The 2008 Singularity Summit was held on October 25th, 2008, at the San Jose Montgomery Theatre. Speakers included Ray Kurzweil, Marshall Brain, Justin Rattner, Ben Goertzel and Peter Diamandis.

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Marshall Brain: How Robots Will Change the Economy and Replace Human Workers

Ben Goertzel: OpenCog: An Open-Source AI Project

Justin Rattner: Why Moore's Law Will Continue to Hold

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2007 Summit

Located at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, Singularity Summit 2007 focused on "AI and the Future of Humanity." Featured AI researchers included Sam Adams, Rodney Brooks, Peter Norvig, and Barney Pell. The two-day summit attracted 1,000 attendees, and was covered by multiple outlets, including WIRED and Forbes.

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Videos

Rodney Brooks: The Singularity: A Period Not An Event

Peter Norvig: The History and Future of Technological Change

Peter Thiel: Financial Markets and the Singularity

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2006 Summit

The inaugural Singularity Summit was hosted at Stanford University in collaboration with Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program and Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Over 1,000 were in attendance. Speakers included Nick Bostrom, Eric Drexler, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Thiel, and Sebastian Thrun.