Singularity University, which had its first day yesterday, got an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I am especially happy to see a mention of the risk of bioengineered viruses in that article, showing that Kurzweil really does care about some risks of technological progress and not just the benefits. I do concur with Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen however, when they claim in Moral Machines that Kurzweil underestimates the risk of Artificial General Intelligence.

The article makes an error in that it says Kurzweil predicts a “singularity” in 2029 rather than 2045. Kurzweil predicts Turing Test-passing AI in 2029, but not a “singularity” (”rupture in the fabric of our understanding) until 2045.