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 mindsFeatures contributions from an international cast of philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction authors, and moreOffers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interestIlluminates the nature and ethics of tomorrows machine mindsand of the convergence of humans and machinesto consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing possibilitiesConsiders classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest topics debated by scholarsCovers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including proponents and skeptics, pros and cons

Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, literary critic, and author, based at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He is editor-in-chief ofThe Journal of Evolution and Technology,and his books includeFreedom 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, includingThe Spike(revised, ed. 2002), the first full-length treatment of the technological Singularity, andYear Million(ed. 2008), about the deep future.

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Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Lets Hope) 1Damien Broderick

Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11Russell Blackford

1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality 26James J. Hughes

2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35Michael Anissimov

3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh

4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness 61Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt

5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90Randal A. Koene

6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102David J. Chalmers

7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119Massimo Pigliucci

8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider

9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146Nicholas Agar

10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161Mark Walker

11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods 178Naomi Wellington

12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193Kathleen Ann Goonan

13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201Joe Strout

14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212Nicole Olson

15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222Max More

16 Qualia Surfing 231Richard Loosemore

17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240Natasha Vita-More

18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative 248Iain Thomson and James Bodington

19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263Victor Grech

20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279Anders Sandberg

21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298Robin Hanson

Afterword 310Linda MacDonald Glenn

Index 321