{"id":24372,"date":"2016-04-07T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-singularity-controversy-3-years-later-a-london-futurists-event"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:27:36","slug":"the-singularity-controversy-3-years-later-a-london-futurists-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-singularity-controversy-3-years-later-a-london-futurists-event","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity Controversy: 3 years later (A London Futurists Event)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-singularity-controversy-3-years-later-a-london-futurists-event.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three years have passed since the publication of the volume of essays \u201cThe Singularity Hypotheses\u201d \u2014 a publication that was marked at the time by a London Futurists discussion event. During these three years, public awareness of the concepts of an intelligence explosion has grown sharply \u2014 fuelled, in part, by statements from luminaries such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>In this event, Amnon Eden, lead editor of Singularity Hypotheses, returns to London Futurists to provide an update on the controversies about the Singularity. Topics to be covered will include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Luddites, Philistines, and Starry-Eyed: The War over Killer Robots.<br \/> \u2022 AI (Artificial Intelligence) vs. IA (Intelligence Augmentation)<br \/> \u2022 \u201cTechnological Singularity\u201d: A Definition, Sufficient and Necessary Conditions.<br \/> \u2022 Perennial Fallacies, Debunked and Re-debunked.<br \/> \u2022 Learning from the media storm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/928655930587466\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/928655930587466\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years have passed since the publication of the volume of essays \u201cThe Singularity Hypotheses\u201d \u2014 a publication that was marked at the time by a London Futurists discussion event. During these three years, public awareness of the concepts of an intelligence explosion has grown sharply \u2014 fuelled, in part, by statements from luminaries such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50858,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions\/50858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}