Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has drawn attention to the technology's
transformative potential, including what some see as its prospects for causing large‐scale …

In this chapter we review the evidence for and against three claims: that (1) there is a
substantial chance we will create human-level AI before 2100, that (2) if human-level AI is …

In recent years, the study of existential risks has explored a range of natural and man-made
catastrophes, from supervolcano eruption to nuclear war, and from global pandemics to …

This introductory chapter discusses the overall place of the twenty-first-century Singularity
within the overall Big History. It is shown that to place the accelerating trend of complexity in …

New technologies, particularly those which are deployed rapidly across sectors, or which
have to operate in competitive conditions, can disrupt previously stable technology …

More intellectual modesty, but also conceptual clarity is urgently needed in AI, perhaps more
than in many other disciplines. AI research has been coined by hypes and hubris since its …

Singularity is a very intriguing future scenario to fantasticate upon, but it is even a quite
controversial theoretical issue. Turning back to our previous (Plebe and Perconti 2013) …

Singularitarianism is a view that is grounded in certain claims about the technological
singularity. In this paper, I identify a trilemma that confronts singularitarianism. This trilemma …

The Future of the Artificial Mind is about the social and technological challenges posed by
the new wave of artificial intelligence, both from a technical and a cognitive perspective …

Recent findings about the capabilities of smart animals such as corvids or octopi and novel
types of artificial intelligence (AI), from social robots to cognitive assistants, are provoking the …