Singularity Summit 2009 moves to New York on October 3-4, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) plans to announce Thursday. The event will feature leading experts on accelerating technological change and the future of humanity, such as inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, speaking on “The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology” and “Critics of the Singularity”; David Chalmers, director of the Centre for Consciousness at Australian National University and author of The Conscious Mind; and Ned Seeman, professor of chemistry at New York University and pioneer in DNA nanotechnology.

“Moving to New York opens up the Singularity Summit to the East Coast and also to Europe,” Michael Vassar, President of SIAI told KurzweilAI.net. “This Summit will extend the set of Singularity-related issues covered to include deeper philosophical issues of consciousness such as mind uploading, as well as life extension, quantum computing, cutting-edge human-enhancement science such as brain-machine interfaces, forecasting methodologies, and the future of the scientific method.”

The speakers, who will also cover AI, neuroscience, biotechnology, philosophy, information technology, life extension, business, and public policy, include:

Dr. Itamar Arel, director of the Machine Intelligence Lab at The University of Tennessee

Dr. Gregory Benford, professor of physics at University of California, Irvine, sci-fi author

Dr. Ed Boyden, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering and of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

Dr. William Dickens, Nonresident Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution

Dr .Gary Drescher, philosopher, author, and AI researcher, author of Good and Real

Aubrey de Grey, biogerontologist, Director of Research at the SENS Foundation

Dr. Ben Goertzel, Director of Research at the Singularity Institute, CEO of Novamente LLC

Dr. Stuart Hameroff, anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona, consciousness theorist

Dr. Robin Hanson, associate professor of economics at George Mason University

Randal Koene, Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at Fatronik Foundation

Dr. Gary Marcus, Director of the NYU Infant Language Learning Center, and professor of psychology at New York University

Dr. Bela Nagy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute

Dr. Michael Nielsen, pioneer in the field of quantum computation, philosopher of science

Anders Sandberg, Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University

Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland

Brad Templeton, software engineer, entrepreneur, and chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dr. Philip E. Tetlock, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, author of Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It?

Peter Thiel, president of Clarium, managing partner of Founders Fund

Gary Wolf, contributing editor at Wired magazine

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute, author of Creating Friendly AI