This great list is from the Accelerating Futures Website from Michael Anissimov
Artificial Intelligence
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Aubrey de Grey Chief Science Officer, Methuselah Foundation |
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Barney Pell Search Strategist, Microsoft |
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Ben Goertzel CSO, Novamente & Director of Research, SIAI |
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Bill Hibbard Emeritus Senior Scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center |
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Bruce Klein President, Novamente & Director of Outreach, SIAI |
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Christine Peterson Co-Founder, Foresight Nanotech Institute |
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David Hart Director of Open Source Projects, SIAI |
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Eliezer Yudkowsky Co-Founder and Research Fellow, SIAI |
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Eric Baum Founder, Baum Research |
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Hans Moravec Chief Scientist, Seegrid Corporation |
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Helen Greiner Co-Founder, iRobot Corporation |
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Hugo de Garis Professor, Wuhan University |
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J Storrs Hall President, Foresight Nanotech Institute |
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John Laird Tishman Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan |
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Jonas Lamis Executive Director, SciVestor Corporation |
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Jonathan Connell Staff Member, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM |
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Joscha Bach Author, Principles of Synthetic Intelligence |
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Jurgen Schmidhuber Professor of Cognitive Robotics and Computer Science, TU Munich |
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Marcus Hutter Associate Professor, Australian National University |
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Marvin Minsky Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT |
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Matt Bamberger Founder, Intelligent Artifice |
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Monica Anderson Founder, Syntience Inc. |
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Moshe Looks AI Researcher, Google Research |
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Neil Jacobstein Chairman and CEO, Teknowledge |
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Pei Wang Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science, Temple University |
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Peter Cheeseman Advisor, Singularity Institute |
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Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google |
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Peter Thiel Founder, Clarium Capital |
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Ray Kurzweil Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. |
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Rodney Brooks Chief Technical Officer, iRobot Corp |
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Ronald Arkin Regents’ Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech |
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Sam Adams Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research Division |
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Sebastian Thrun Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
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Selmer Bringsjord Chair, Department of Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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Stan Franklin Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Memphis |
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Stephen Omohundro Founder and President, Self-Aware Systems |
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Stephen Reed Principal Developer, Texai |
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Susan Fonseca Klein Chief Administrative Officer, Singularity Institute |
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Wendell Wallach Lecturer, Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics |
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