Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a topic with numerous implications beyond the boundaries of science and engineering. As AGI technology develops, it can be expected to have increasingly dramatic impacts on human society, including commerce and economics, and all other aspects of human life.

In recent years there has been a series of conferences addressing the broader implications of AGI technology in a futuristic vein, including for instance:

• Singularity Summit, San Francisco - Sept 2007
• Third SENS Conference, Cambridge, England - Sept 2007
• TransVision, Chicago - July 2007
• Stanford Singularity Summit, Palo Alto - May 2006
• AAAI Symposium on Machine Ethics, Washington DC - Nov 2005
• Accelerating Change: AI & Intelligence Amplification, Palo Alto - Sept 2005
• Vital Progress "VP" Summit, Extropy Institute - Feb 2004

However, the discussion of the broader implications of AGI that occurs in such contexts is not always fully informed by the technical and scientific details of AGI science.  The objective of this Workshop is to confront and explore the social, cultural, ethical and futurological implications of AGI in a way that takes full account of the current state of knowledge in the AGI field, as represented by the work presented at the AGI-08 conference.

• Ben Goertzel (Chair), Novamente LLC (ben -at- novamente.net)
• Eric Baum, Baum Research Enterprises
• Hugo de Garis, Wuhan University
• Itamar Elhanan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• J. Storrs Hall, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
• Matthew Ikle, Novamente LLC
• Randal Koene, Boston University
• Moshe Looks, Novamente LLC
• Steve Omohundro, Self-Aware Systems
  

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