This site has talks and papers by Steve Omohundro about natural intelligence, artificial intelligence, and cooperative technology. Steve is currently writing a book about how to use insights into emergent intelligence to transform your business, your life, and your future.

Here are some good places to start:

This 20 minute talk discusses how humanity is interconnecting into a kind of “global brain” and describes 9 universal laws of emergent intelligence:

The Wisdom of the Global Brain

This 2 hour talk describes the principles of emergent intelligence:

Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Humanity

This 2 hour talk discusses the science and technology of cooperation:

Creating a Cooperative Future

This 1 hour talk discusses the future of technology:

Stanford Computer Systems Colloquium Talk: Self-Improving AI and the Future of Computing

This 1.5 hour talk discusses technology and human morality:

AI and the Future of Human Morality

This 2 hour talk focuses on biological issues:

Co-opetition in Economics, Biology, and AI

These two papers analyze the likely behavior of self-improving artificial intelligence using tools from microeconomics:

The Basic AI Drives

The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence

Older talks and papers are available here:

Scientific Contributions

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