This is a counter to the "flurry of fear and excitement Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's" book Superintelligence by Ben Goertzel Ph.D., a fellow of the IEET, and founder and CEO of two computer science firms Novamente and Biomind, and of the non-profit Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel0151107
More from Goertzel:
The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.kr/2010/10/singularity-institutes-scary-idea-and.html
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel0151107
As we progress further toward advanced AGI in practice, we may see more cross-pollination between theory and practice. It will be fantastic to be able to experiment with ideas like the Value Learning Thesis in the lab—and this may not be so far off, after all….
More from Goertzel:
The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.kr/2010/10/singularity-institutes-scary-idea-and.html