The new double-issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies focuses on responses to David Chalmers’ 2010 paper on the Singularity, and includes several articles relevant to Friendly AI.

Contents:

1. Uziel Awret - Introduction
2. Susan Blackmore - She Won’t Be Me
3. Damien Broderick - Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction
4. Barry Dainton - On Singularities and Simulations
5. Daniel Dennett - The Mystery of David Chalmers
6. Ben Goertzel - Should Humanity Build a Global AI Nanny to Delay the Singularity Until It’s Better Understood?
7. Susan Greenfield - The Singularity: Commentary on David Chalmers
8. Robin Hanson - Meet the New Conflict, Same as the Old Conflict
9. Francis Heylighen - Brain in a Vat Cannot Break Out
10. Marcus Hutter - Can Intelligence Explode?
11. Drew McDermott - Response to ‘The Singularity’ by David Chalmers
12. Jurgen Schmidhuber - Philosophers & Futurists, Catch Up!
13. Frank Tipler - Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity
14. Roman Yampolskiy - Leakproofing the Singularity: Artificial Intelligence Confinement Problem