Intelligent Technology, the New Attention Economy, and the Future of Ethics: …

Considerable attention has been directed to the far scientific horizon of AI and the risk of a technological singularity when an artificial superintelligence "wakes up" and begins acting in its own self-interest, now ours. Long before then, however, humanity will confront an ethical singularity--a point at which the evaluation of values systems acquires infinite value. The computational factori…