Michael Anissimov
Media Director, Singularity Institute
Michael Anissimov is Media Director for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), a non-profit with 6 full-time employees and over 1,250 supporters on Facebook. SIAI is focused on managing the risks from advanced AI.
Michael is a science/technology writer and consultant based in San Francisco. His blog, Accelerating Future, has received 5 million views since its founding in 2006, and was covered on G4.TV's Attack of the Show and Wired.com. His posts have reached the front page of social news sites like Digg and Reddit. He is the founder of the Accelerating Future domain, which includes various blogs and websites for the promotion of transhumanism and futurism. His blog is the most popular transhumanist blog on the Internet.
In 2002, when still in High School, he co-founded the non-profit Immortality Institute, a grassroots life extension advocacy organization. The non-profit was formed to tap into a new realization in the scientific community that stem cell research and regenerative medicine could be used over the next few decades to radically extend human life and health.
Michael has consulted for the Methuselah Foundation and Kurzweil Technologies. In May 2007, he was profiled for Psychology Today magazine. He was also quoted several times in Ray Kurzweil's best-selling 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. An up-to-date bio is here.
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The Speculist, Voices from the 2007 Singularity Summit
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2007 Foresight Vision Weekend Unconference, Preventing Technological Armageddon
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09.20.07 Podcasting the Singularity hosted by Chris Williamson
22:47
05.06.07 NeoFiles hosted by RU Sirius
11:06
05.05.07 Changesurfer Radio hosted by James Hughes
18:56
01.14.07 Sentient Developments Radio hosted by George Dvorsky
29:58