J Storrs Hall (Josh)

Author, Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine

J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and writer. His research focus is in artificial intelligence, molecular nanotechnology, and machine ethics. His inventions include swarm robotic systems, self-bootstrapping automated manufacturing systems, adiabatic logic, and agoric operating systems. He is the author of Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology, winner of the Foresight Institute's Communications Prize and Drew University's Bela Kornitzer Prize. His latest work is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine.

Previously, Dr. Hall was the founding chief scientist of Nanorex Inc., a software company developing computational modeling tools for the design and analysis of productive nanosystems. His research background includes microprocessor design, compilers, massively parallel processor design, CAD software, and automated multi-level design.

His presentation at the 2007 Singularity Summit hosted by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence was entitled "Asimov's Laws of Robotics Revised." The talk considered a revised notion of robotic morality, one based on an understanding of the evolutionary origins of human morals and ethics, which allows the robots that bear it to prosper in a world of others that do not, and one which is an evolutionarily stable strategy in the future ecosystem of mind.

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2nd Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons

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2007 Singularity Summit

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6th Alcor Conference, A Door Into Summer
CRN Future of Nano & Bio Conference, What Could A Nanofactory Make?
2007 Singularity Summit, Asimov's Laws of Robotics - Revised

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2007 Singularity Summit, Asimov's Laws of Robotics - Revised