It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what preparations are necessary ...

The popular media loves stories about “the singularity” — the point at which computers get smarter than people, achieve consciousness, and take over. The use of the term “singularity” in this way was ...

Sci-fi depictions of the future would have us thinking of the singularity — when A.I surpasses human intelligence — as either a technological messiah or the apocalypse. Experts in the field hold ...