Bill Hibbard is a scientist at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

Space Science and Engineering Center Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless fou ...

working on visualization and

machine intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

. He is principal author of the Vis5D, Cave5D, and VisAD

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

visualization systems. Vis5D was the first system to produce fully interactive animated 3D displays of time-dynamic volumetric data sets and the first open-source 3D visualization system.

Writings on artificial intelligence

Bill Hibbard is also author of the book ''Super-Intelligent Machines'' and several articles about the

technological singularity The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. According to the ...

. The ideas from Hibbard's book were refined in 2008. Hibbard published a series of three papers in 2012 on technical AI risk. One of these papers won the Singularity Institute's 2012 Turing Prize for the Best AGI Safety Paper. His 2014 book, ''Ethical Artificial Intelligence'', brings together all his ideas about AI. His 2018 talk on PBS presents some of his ideas for a general audience.

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Bio at Lifeboat Foundation

Profile at Accelerating Futures

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