About the Volume

• “A significant advance in singularity scholarship” Ted Goertzel, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
• “The best introduction I know to some profound debates about our future as a species” David Christian, Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney
• “Riveting ... [insightful commentaries on the] continuing co-evolution of computing and humanity” Grady Booch, Chief Scientist for Software Engineering, IBM Research
• “A remarkably thorough survey of contemporary expert thinking concerning the technological singularity” Aubrey de Grey, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies & SENS Foundation
• "A valuable overview of the singularity debate" Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative essays and critical commentaries on central questions relating to accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity, focusing on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of speculative forecasts about the nature of a putative technological singularity, which casts doubt over the scientific rigour of claims about the profound impact likely to result from further progress in these areas of science and technology.We therefore invited computer scientists, physicists, philosophers, biologists, economists and other prominent thinkers who actively investigate these questions to contribute jargon-free, peer-reviewed essays and commentaries which support or challenge one or more of the singularity hypotheses. Their contributions go beyond speculation, providing deep insights into the main issues and a balanced picture of the debate. Each essay examines answers to central questions which reformulate the singularity hypothesis as a coherent and falsifiable conjecture, examine its empirical value, and investigate its most likely consequences, in particular those associated with existential risks.

The volume can be purchased from online retailers such as Amazon and directly from Springer.

Chapters available online:

• Singularity Hypotheses: An Overview. Amnon H. Eden, David Pearce, Eric Steinhart, James H. Moor
• A Singular Universe of Many Singularities: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context. Eric J. Chaisson, Harvard University
• New Millennium AI and the Convergence of History: Update of 2012. Jürgen Schmidhuber, University of Lugano & SUPSI

See also the full Table of Contents

The volume is edited by Amnon H. Eden, James H. Moor, Johnny Søraker, and Eric Steinhart. Our contact person is Amnon.