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knowledge and

intelligence augmentation (IA)

intelligence explosion

economics and

financial markets and

hard takeoff in

limiting factors to

Moore’s law and

risks of,
see
risks of artificial intelligence

self-awareness and,
see
self-awareness

self-improvement and,
see
self-improvement

software complexity and

system space for

Internet

intelligence emerging from

security and

iPad

iPhone

Siri

Iran

iRobot

Jennings, Ken

Jeopardy!

Joy, Bill

Jurvetson, Steve

Kahneman, Daniel

Kasparov, Gary

Kelly, Kevin

Koza, John

Kroft, Steve

Kurzweil, Ray

global warming problem as viewed by

Google and

Law of Accelerating Returns of

Singularity and

Langner, Ralph

Lanier, Jaron

Law of Accelerating Returns (LOAR)

Lay, Kenneth

Leibnitz, Gottfried

Lenat, Douglas

Lewis, H. W.

LIDA (Learning Intelligent Distributed Agent)

Lifeboat Foundation

Lipson, Hod

Loebner, Hugh

Lynn, William J., III

Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

Singularity Summit

machine learning

Madoff, Bernie

malware

Mazzafro, Joe

McCarthy, John

McGurk, Sean

military

battlefield robots and drones

DARPA,
see
DARPA

energy infrastructure and

nuclear weapons,
see
nuclear weapons

Mind Children
(Moravec)

Minsky, Marvin

Mitchell, Tom

mobile phones

see also
iPhone

Monster Cat

Moore, Gordon

Moore’s Law

morality

see also
Friendly AI

Moravec, Hans

Moravec’s Paradox

mortality,
see
immortality

mortgage crisis

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

nano assemblers

nanotechnology

“gray goo” problem and

natural language processing (NLP)

natural selection

Nekomata (Monster Cat)

NELL (Never-Ending-Language-Learning system)

neural networks

neurons

New Scientist

New York Times

Newman, Max

Newton, Isaac

Ng, Andrew

9/11 attacks

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
(Perrow)

normalcy bias

North Korea

Norvig, Peter

Novamente

nuclear fission

nuclear power

plant disasters

nuclear weapons

of Iran

Numenta

Ohana, Steve

Olympic Games (cyberwar campaign)

Omohundro, Stephen

OpenCog

Otellini, Paul

Page, Larry

paper clip maximizer scenario

parallel processing

pattern recognition

Pendleton, Leslie

Perceptron

Perrow, Charles

Piaget, Jean

power grid

Precautionary Principle

programming

bad

evolutionary

genetic

ordinary

self-improving,
see
self-improvement

Rackspace

rational agent theory of economics

recombinant DNA

Reflections on Artificial Intelligence
(Whitby)

resource acquisition

risks of artificial intelligence

apoptotic systems and

Asilomar Guidelines and

Busy Child scenario and,
see
Busy Child scenario

defenses against

lack of dialogue about

malicious AI

Precautionary Principle and

runaway AI

Safe-AI Scaffolding Approach and

Stuxnet and

unintended consequences

robots, robotics

Asimov’s Three Laws of

in dangerous and service jobs

in sportswriting

Rosenblatt, Frank

Rowling, J. K.

Rubin, Andrew

“Runaround” (Asimov)

Safe-AI Scaffolding Approach

Sagan, Carl

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems

Schmidt, Eric

Schwartz, Evan

Scientist Speculates, The
(Good, ed.)

Searle, John

self-awareness

Self-Aware Systems

self-improvement

self-preservation

September 11 attacks

serial processing

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

Shostak, Seth

Silicon Valley

Singularitarians

Singularity

definitions of

Kurzweil and

technological

Singularity Is Near, The
(Kurzweil)

Singularity Summit

Singularity University

Sir Groovy

Siri

60 Minutes

Skilling, Jeffrey

Smart Action

smart phones

see also
iPhone

software

complexity of

malware

see also
programming

solar energy

space exploration

“Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” (Good)

speech recognition

SRI International

stealth companies

Sterrit, Roy

Stibel, Jeff

Stuxnet

subprime mortgage crisis

Symantec

SyNAPSE

Technological Risk
(Lewis)

technology journalism

Terminator
movies

terrorism

9/11 attacks

Thiel, Peter

Thinking Machines, Inc.

Three Mile Island

tightly coupled systems

Thrun, Sebastian

transhumans

transistors

Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron

Turing, Alan

Turing machine

Turing test

Tversky, Amos

two-minute problem

2001: A Space Odyssey

Ulam, Stanislaw

utility function

Vassar, Michael

Vicarious Systems

Vinge, Vernor

violence

Virginia Tech Massacre

Virtually You
(Aboujaoude)

voice recognition

von Neumann, John

Voss, Peter

Wallach, Wendall

Wall Street

Warwick, Kevin

Washington Post

Watson

weapons,
see
military

Whitby, Blay

“Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” (Joy)

Wired for Thought
(Stibel)

Wissner-Gross, Alexander D.

Wolfram, Stephen

Wozniak, Steve

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
(Lanier)

Yudkowsky, Eliezer

Yudkowsky, Yehuda

Zeitgist ’06

zero day vulnerabilities

Zeroth Law

Zeus malware

About the Author

James Barrat is a documentary filmmaker who’s written and produced films for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, and many other broadcasters in the United States and Europe. He lives near Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children.

Learn more at
www.JamesBarrat.com
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    Our final invention: artificial intelligence and the end of the human era / James Barrat.—First Edition.

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