Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils (Part 9: Objections and replies)| Reflective altruism
The singularity hypothesis is a radical hypothesis about the future of artificial intelligence on which self-improving artificial agents will quickly become orders of magnitude more intelligent than the average human. Despite the ambitiousness of its claims, the singularity hypothesis has been defended at length by leading philosophers and artificial intelligence researchers. In this paper, I argue that the singularity hypothesis rests on scientifically implausible growth assumptions. ...| Global Priorities Institute
An ultra-intelligent machine is a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. The design of machines is on…| www.sciencedirect.com