Table of contents Abstract.......................................................................................................................9 Acknowledgements................................................................................................ 11 1. Introduction........................................................................................................ 15 2. Protagonists and Personalities of the transhumanist tu rn .......................69 2.1 Ray Kurzweil......................................................................................................69 2.2 Dmitry Itskov.................................................................................................... 71 2.3 Elon Musk.......................................................................................................... 73 Main analysts and philosophers of the transhumanist turn.........................75 2.4 Hans Moravec...................................................................................................75 2.5 Nick Bostrom.....................................................................................................76 2.6 Eliezer Yudkowsky............................................................................................77 3. How to create a robotic avatar body............................................................. 79 3.1 Purpose..............................................................................................................81 3.2 State of the a rt................................................................................................. 81 3.3 Robots in eastern and Western societies.................................................... 87 3.4 Geminoids ........................................................................................................ 89 3.5 Initiative 2 0 4 5 ...................................................................................................91 3.6 Other robotic avatar projects....................................................................... 94 3.7 Four generations of robots............................................................................98 3.8 Machine rights: Sophia, the first robot with Citizen rights.....................101 3.9 The beginning of physical man-machine gaia: ........................................104 Exo Skeletons and enhanced humans Proposal I: Pathway to Artificial Athletes........................................................105 4. How to create an artificial mind.................................................................... 111 The horizon of possible roads to artificial general intelligence (AGI).... 111 4.1 The technological singularity...................................................................... 116 4.2 Reverse-engineering of the human brain.................................................126 4.3 Whole Brain Emulation ............................................................................... 130 4.4 Brain uploading vs. Mind uploading..........................................................141 4.5 Machine learning ..........................................................................................149 4.6 Genetic programming and neural networks............................................ 154 4.7 Subjectivity......................................................................................................163 5. How to summon the demon - The leap from artificial general intelligence (AGI) to artificial super intelligence (ASI)............................ 167 5.1 The control problem...................................................................................... 168 5.2 Superorganisms as path to solve the control problem..........................183 5.3 Exponential growth and the law of accelerating results (LOAR)......... 185 5.4 Man-machine-ASIs.........................................................................................186 5.5 Fringe pathologies: The Capgras Delusion scenario................................190 5.6 Decisive Strategie advantages...................................................................... 199 5.7 Takeover scenarios....................................................................................... 201 5.8 A philosophical mind-bender: Merely a brain in the tank?................. 205 6. How to translate humanity's core values to an AI.................................. 211 6.1 Moral philosophy............................................................................................212 6.2 Coherent extrapolated volition (CEV)....................................................... 215 6.3 Human domains and contributions...........................................................218 6.4 Perverse instantiations..................................................................................220 6.5 Proposal II: Human core value m anifest...................................................225 7. How to face disruptive economic effects caused ...........................by A I 229 7.1 Obsolete jobs and skills ............................................................................... 232 7.2 Digital Humanities..........................................................................................235 7.3 „Jetson"-The world's first artificial screenwriter..................................237 7.4 New job opportunities and needed skills .................................................239 7.5 Synthetic intellects and their economies..................................................241 8. How to create safe nanotechnology........................................................... 245 8.1 Potentials and hazards of molecular nano assembly............................. 248 8.2 The „gray goo" scenario............................................................................... 249 8.3 Possible dangers of ASI with access to molecular nano assemblers ...250 8.4 Safety p ath s....................................................................................................258 9. How to survive a Singleton AI........................................................................261 9.1 What is a singleton or Why humans still matter.................................... 262 9.2 The clandestine singleton............................................................................264 9.3 Living in exile from humanity - Exes........................................................ 265 10. How to create a future-proof cyber-ethic: Responsibilities and demands..................................................................................................269 10.1 Safe AI - is it even possible?..................................................................... 270 10.2 Apoptotic Systems...................................................................................... 273 10.3 Restrictions and legal regulations............................................................ 275 10.4 Finding moral Consensus beyond CEV.................................................... 277 10.5 Translating a mutual moral philosophy to an advanced AI................280 10.6 Humanitary appropriate goal design...................................................... 285 10.7 Digital reality aka The Virtual Kingdom................................................... 289 Conclusions............................................................................................................295 Bibliography...........................................................................................................323.