Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises,
and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in
a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally
recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors,
and theorists.
* Compelling and intellectually sophisticated exploration of
the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence and machine
minds
* Features contributions from an international cast of
philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction
authors, and more
* Offers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence
and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interest
* Illuminates the nature and ethics of tomorrow’s machine
minds–and of the convergence of humans and machines–to
consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing
possibilities
* Considers classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest
topics debated by scholars
* Covers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the
prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including
proponents and skeptics, pros and cons
Зміст
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let’s Hope)
1
Damien Broderick
Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11
Russell Blackford
1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and
Strengthen Human Morality 26
James J. Hughes
2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35
Michael Anissimov
3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46
Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh
4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence
Toward Friendliness 61
Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt
5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90
Randal A. Koene
6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102
David J. Chalmers
7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119
Massimo Pigliucci
8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131
Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider
9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146
Nicholas Agar
10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161
Mark Walker
11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods
178
Naomi Wellington
12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and
Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193
Kathleen Ann Goonan
13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201
Joe Strout
14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212
Nicole Olson
15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222
Max More
16 Qualia Surfing 231
Richard Loosemore
17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240
Natasha Vita-More
18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative
248
Iain Thomson and James Bodington
19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263
Victor Grech
20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279
Anders Sandberg
21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298
Robin Hanson
Afterword 310
Linda Mac Donald Glenn
Index 321
Про автора
Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, literary critic, and author, based at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Evolution and Technology, and his books include Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Damien Broderick is an award-winning Australian science and fiction writer, editor and critical theorist. He has written or edited some 60 books, including The Spike (revised, ed. 2002), the first full-length treatment of the technological Singularity, and Year Million (ed. 2008), about the deep future.
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