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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