Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Global Catastrophic Risks assessed....

From Levine Breaking News:

SCIENTISTS SAY HUMANS AND MACHINES WILL MERGE IN FUTURE:

A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the end of human life on Earth as we know it.

Speakers at the four-day event at Oxford University in Britain will talk about topics including nuclear terrorism and what to do if a large asteroid were to be on a collision course with our planet.

On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference, experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens.

Note: Anne McCaffery has already written a book, "The Ship That Sang", about the mix of machine and human brain.

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