Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.

Its extremely unlikely that Terminator's Skynet, or a system like it, would become a reality. At least not on purpose...

Intelligence seems to be an emergent property. But it doesn't emerge from processing speed or ability to store a certain amount of data...

If you can't promise people actual immortality, you can sometimes get away with promising them the next big thing.

The wars of the future will be fought by robots, but instead of lowering the cost of war, they might make wars bloodier and more common.