We need a blockchain for ethical, friendly artificial intelligence about as much as a fish needs an umbrella. But in true Singularitarian fashion, one is being proposed.

Could alien AI be the dominant life form in the universe instead of its organic creators?

There's a fine line between being an expert trying to simplify a complex topic and an arrogant snob lecturing down to your audience. TED's all-stars are starting to cross that line.

To some, Ray Kurzweil will always be a tech prophet , and they're prepared to cherry-pick his track record to sell that belief.

Time gives the Singularity and its prophet the kid glove treatment, glossing over the scientific and technical issues with a wave of starry eyed credulity.

Dr. Steel is all in for The Singularity in a promo for a new single by the same name.

Singularitarian arguments for the seeming inevitability of artificial super-intelligent are little more than wild extrapolations of pop sci cliches.

Michael Anissimov has had it with transhumanists ready to hurry up and wait for technology to solve every problem humanity faces by merely existing.

While the Singularity Institute is celebrating their vision on a mainstream sitcom, it's actually become a punchline...

Are public transhumanists pulling away from Kurzweil, citing him as a distraction from a much more sober and realistic community?

A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.

Didn't get enough Singularity debates on the air last time? George Dvorsky and I are back...

The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...

It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.