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October 25, 2008, San Jose, CA

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  • 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

    Ray Kurzweil
  • 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

    Peter Thiel
  • 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

    Peter Diamandis
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The Singularity Summit 2008 > Reading List

5 Intro Books

  • Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
    Eric Drexler
  • Radical Evolution
    Joel Garreau
  • Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine
    J. Storrs Hall
  • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
    Ray Kurzweil
  • Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
    Bill McKibben

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

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