provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control
I must have been sleeping through all the other quotations of this. It's the first time I noticed this was a part of the original text.
It was left off: http://singinst.org/summit/overview/whatisthesingularity/
It's left off the wikipedia entry that references it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
And this other random high Google hit: http://www.committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1771
I guess one upshot is that I pulled up the original article to verify (and no the comment about Vernor Vinge was not in the original). Scholarship!
Is Luke paying attention, though? Good could not have been quoting Vinge!
AI: A Modern Approach is by far the dominant textbook in the field. It is used in 1200 universities, and is the 25th most-cited publication in computer science. If you're going to learn AI, this is how you learn it.
Luckily, the concepts of AGI and Friendly AI get pretty good treatment in the 3rd edition, released in 2009.
The Singularity is mentioned in the first chapter on page 12. Both AGI and Friendly AI are also mentioned in the first chapter, on page 27:
Chapter 26 is about the philosophy AI, and section 26.3 is "The Ethics and Risks of Developing Artificial Intelligence." They are:
Each of those sections is one or two paragraphs long. The final risk of AI takes up 3.5 pages: (6) The Success of AI might mean the end of the human race. Here's a snippet:
Then they mention Moravec, Kurzweil, and transhumanism, before returning to a more concerned tone about AI. They cover Asimov's three laws of robotics, and then:
It's good this work is getting such mainstream coverage!