I’m thinking of doing a small website project for the upcoming movie Terminator: Salvation. The concept is somewhat similar to “Three Laws Unsafe”. I want to call it “Preventing Skynet”. The movie is just coming out in three days, so we’d be late with the site. Hopefully it would go up within two weeks if I receive enough material.

I am soliciting short essays that discuss basic Friendly AI/Singularity concepts:

- why is morality not automatic?
- why could human-equivalent AI be powerful?
- why should I care about AI? The human brain is too complex to duplicate for hundreds of years.

I would suggest including a superficial mention of the Terminator franchise. You don’t need to see the new movie, just see a couple of the older ones.

“Short” essays as in 1,000-2,000 words. Everything should be kept simple, with your educated, geeky, easily distracted target audience in mind. For examples of what I’m looking for, see:

http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/06/06/tragic-assumptions-about-greater-intelligence-as-depicted-by-termites/
http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/robot_oppressio.html
http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/too_simple_to_b.html
http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/why_we_need_fri_1.html
http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/unsafe_at_any_l.html
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2007/06/the-rapids-of-progress-by-mitchell-howe/
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2007/04/investing-in-immortality-by-mitchell-howe/

Please consider contributing! Email your essay to me. Even if your essay is a rant, consider submitting it, because I might be able to edit it. Anonymous essays are accepted.