PAGE 264: "human life will be irreversibly transformed" Raymond Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (New York: Penguin, 2005), 7. * "called an intelligence explosion" Irving John Good, "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine," Advances in Computers, 6 (1965), 31-88; David J. Chalmers, "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17 (2010), 7-65; Luke Muelhauser, Anna Salamon, "In Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import," in The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, ed. Amnon Eden, Johnny Soraker, Jim Moor, and Eric Steinhart. * "predicts some kind of Singularity by 2048" Janet Harris, "Intel Predicts Singularity by 2048," Tech News in techwatch.com, August 22, 2008, http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/08/22/intel-predicts-singularity-by-2048/; Justin Rattner, "The Future of Moore's Law and Intel's Methods of Microchip Design," Singularity Institute video, singinst.org, October 2008, http://singinst.org/media/singularitysummit2008/justinrattner. * "chance of an intelligence explosion by 2100" Michael Nielsen, "What should a reasonable person believe about the Singularity?" michaelnielsen.org, January 12, 2011, http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/what-should-a-reasonable-person-believe-about-the-singularity. * "near the middle of the century" Shane Legg, "Sutton on Human Level AI," Vetta Project, May 9, 2011, http://www.vetta.org/2011/05/sutton-on-human-level-ai. * "an intelligence explosion will occur by 2100" David J. Chalmers, "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17 (2010), 7-65. * "would occur by 2045" Seth D. Baum, Ben Goertzel, Ted G. Goertzel, "How Long Until Human-Level AI? Results from an Expert Assessment," Technological Forecasting and Social Changes, 78 (January 2011): 185-195. * "'last invention that man need ever make,'" I. J. Good, "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine" (Academic Press, 1965), http://www.stat.vt.edu/tech_reports/2005/GoodTechReport.pdf.

PAGE 265: "would not want the same things we do" Daniel Dewey, "Learning What to Value," in Artificial General Intelligence: 4th International Conference, AGI 2011, Mountain View, CA, USA, August 3-6, 2011, Proceedings, ed. Jurgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thorisson, Moshe Looks (Springer, 2011), 309-314. * See also: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk," in Global Catastrophic Risks, ed. Nick Bostrom, Milan M. 'irkovi' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 308-345; See also: Luke Muehlhauser, Louie Helm, "The Singularity and Machine Ethics," in The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, ed. Amnon Eden, Johnny Soraker, Jim Moor, Eric Steinhart. * "making sense of human preferences" Luke Muehlhauser, "So You Want to Save the World," lukeprog.com, March 2, 2012, http://lukeprog.com/SaveTheWorld.html. * For more on the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, see: http://singinst.org. * For more on the Future of Humanity Institute, see: http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk. * "ever happened on this fragile planet" Michael Anissimov, "The Benefits of a Successful Singularity," acceleratingfuture.com, July 6, 2011, http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2011/07/the-benefits-of-a-successful-singularity-2.

PAGE 267: "instead of checking in at the gate" "Obama Blames ATMs for High Unemployment," fox nation at foxnews.com, June 14, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/06/14/obama-blames-atms-high-unemployment.

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