This conference track is being chaired by a real computer scientist with a specialty in AI, so it should be more meaty than some popular discussions of this challenging topic:
We invite submissions describing systematic attempts at understanding the likelihood and nature of these projections. In particular, we welcome papers critically analyzing the following issues from a philosophical, computational, mathematical, scientific and ethical standpoints:
- Claims and evidence to acceleration
- Technological predictions (critical analysis of past and future)
- The nature of an intelligence explosion and its possible outcomes
- The nature of the Technological Singularity and its outcome
- Safe and unsafe artificial general intelligence and preventative measures
- Technological forecasts of computing phenomena and their projected impact
- Beyond the ‘event horizon’ of the Technological Singularity
- The prospects of transhuman breakthroughs and likely timeframes
