5 Intro Books

• Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
  Eric Drexler
• Global Catastrophic Risks
  Sir Martin Rees, Nick Bostrom, Milan Cirkovic
• Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
  Gregory Stock
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
  Ray Kurzweil
• Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
  Gary Marcus

10 Intro Publications

• Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence
  Nick Bostrom
• What is Nanotechnology?
  Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
• Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time
  Ben Goertzel
• Special Report: The Singularity
  IEEE Spectrum
• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
  Bill Joy
• Why Work Toward the Singularity?
  Singularity Institute
• The Basic AI Drives
  Steve Omohundro
• The Conversational Interface
  John Smart
• The Coming Technological Singularity
  Vernor Vinge
• AI as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk
  Eliezer Yudkowsky