The Singularity

Overview

Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human? Director Doug Wolens speaks with leading futurists, computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts, and philosophers who turn over the question like a Rubik’s Cube. Ultimately, if we become more machine-like, and machines more like us, will we sacrifice our humanity to gain something greater? Or will we engineer our own demise? THE SINGULARITY is a comprehensive and insightful documentary film that examines technology’s accelerating rate, and deftly addresses the resulting moral questions.

Directed by Doug Wolens

Top cast

Ray Kurzweil

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Leon Panetta

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Richard A. Clarke

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Bill McKibben

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David Chalmers

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Wolfe Singer

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Christine Peterson

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Christof Koch

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Alison Gopnik

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Peter Norvig

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Ben Goertzel

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Aubrey de Grey

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Barney Pell

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Ralph Merkle

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Brad Templeton

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Paul Saffo

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Cynthia Breazeal

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Marshall Brain

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Jonas Lamis

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