Updates & Press
2011 News
- National Public Radio: The Singularity: Humanity's Last Invention?
- Singularity Hub: NPR Covers the Singularity - As The Biggest Threat to Humanity!
- Singularity Summit 2010 Videos Posted on Vimeo
- Singularity Institute Successfully Raises $250,000 in Tallinn-Evans Challenge Grant
- Overview of 2010 Singularity Institute Publications
- The Singularity: a Philosophical Analysis
2010 News
- Reducing Long-Term Catastrophic Risks from Artificial Intelligence
- Singularity Institute Visiting Fellows Bios Posted
- Scientific American: Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not -- But You Can Have Fun Trying
- CNN: Paging Dr. Gupta: "Mind Becomes Machine"
- Wired's Gadget Lab on Singularity Summit 2010
- Michael Vassar on "Networks, Hierarchies and the Vingean Singularity"
- UK Independent: Revenge of the nerds: Should we listen to futurists or are they leading us towards "nerdocalypse'?
- SF Weekly: Singularity Summit Highlights: World Fails to End
- SF Weekly: Singularity Summit Hits San Francisco
- Podcast with Michael Vassar at the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
- GQ magazine covered the Singularity Institute in January 2010 issue
- Michael Vassar and Michael Anissimov on Supreme Master TV
- James Randi Educational Foundation: Randi to Speak at Singularity Summit 2010
- Playboy featured an article on the Singularity Institute in the January/February 2010 issue
2009 News
- New Overview: Artificial Intelligence Institute Appoints Michael Vassar President
- Singularity Hub coverage of Michael Vassar's Google TechTalk
- Forbes: The Transhumanists Arrive: the Stars of Singularity Summit 2009
- Forbes: the Transhumanists are Coming
- Forbes: Special AI Report: Michael Vassar on Machine Minds
- Popular Science: Ten Unanswered Questions For Our Future Robot Overlords
- Popular Science: The Faces of Singularity (photo gallery)
- Popular Science: Just How's This Thing Gonna Work, Anyways?
- Future Blogger: 10 Questions with SIAI President Michael Vassar
- Accelerating Future interview with Michael Vassar
- World Future Society Interview with Michael Vassar
- Anna Salamon at Singularity Summit 2009: "Shaping the Singularity"
- Eliezer Yudkowsky at Singularity Summit 2009: Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks
- David Chalmers at Singularity Summit 2009: "Simulation and the Singularity"
- Changing the World Panel w/ Aubrey de Grey, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel
- Singularity Institute Overview for Journalists
2008 News
- SIAI Interview with Roboticist Cynthia Breazeal
- SIAI Interview with Science Writer and Futurist Marshall Brain
- SIAI Interview with Intel CTO and Singularity Enthusiast Justin Rattner
- SIAI Interview with Economist James Miller
- SIAI Interview with Vernor Vinge, coiner of the term "Singularity"
2007 News
- SIAI Interview with Google Director of Research Peter Norvig
- SIAI Interview with AI Researcher Stephen Omohundro
- MSNBC: What Will Happen When Machines Outthink Us?
- Associated Press: Techies Ponder Computers Smarter than Us
- Forbes: Robot Chic
- Reason: Will Super-Smart Artificial Intelligence Keep Humans Around as Pets?
- San Francisco Chronicle: Public Meeting Will Re-Examine Future of AI
- San Jose Mercury News: Venture Capitalist: We Need to Prepare for AI
- Wired: Peter Thiel Explains How to Invest in the Singularity
- ZDNET Podcast: Dr. Stephen Omohundro, Self-Aware Systems
- ZDNET Podcast: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity Institute
- Singularity Summit 2007 Podcast: Dr. Stephen Omohundro, Self-Aware Systems
- Coast to Coast: Eliezer Yudkowsky's three-hour interview
Press Releases
- August 7, 2007: The Singularity Summit to Address Promise and Peril of Advanced AI to Future of Humanity
- May 20, 2007: Ray Kurzweil Joins the Singularity Institute's Board of Directors
Older News
- SIAI Interview Series: Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chair & CSO, Methuselah Foundation
- The Singularity Institute Blog is Now Online
- SIAI Video Featuring Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Peter Thiel, Dr. Barney Pell et. al.
- SIAI Interview Series: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Research Fellow, SIAI
- Podcast: Eliezer Yudkowsky on Cameron Reilly's G'day World