Editorial: Risks of artificial intelligence -- Autonomous technology and the greater human good -- Errors, insights, and lessons of famous artificial intelligence predictions: and what they mean for the future -- Path to more general artificial intelligence -- Limitations and risks of machine ethics -- Utility function security in artificially intelligent agents -- Goal-oriented learning meta-architecture: toward an artificial general intelligence meta-architecture enabling both goal preservation and radical self-improvement -- Universal empathy and ethical bias for artificial general intelligence -- Bounding the impact of artificial general intelligence -- Ethics of brain emulations -- Long-term strategies for ending existential risk from fast takeoff -- Singularity, or how I learned to stop worrying and love artificial intelligence.

"If the intelligence of artificial systems were to surpass that of humans, humanity would face significant risks. The time has come to consider these issues, and this consideration must include progress in artificial intelligence (AI) as much as insights from AI theory. Featuring contributions from leading experts and thinkers in artificial intelligence, RIsks of Artificial Intelligence is the first volume of collected chapters dedicated to examining the risks of AI. The books evaluates predictions of the future of AI, proposes ways to ensure that AI systems will be beneficial to humans, and then critically evaluates such proposals." -- From back cover.