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~100 people jammed into a sea cliff SF mansion discussing posthuman AGI. guest list isn't public (unicorn founders, agi twitter anons, agi lab folks, agi gov leaders), but the speakers are public :)

here's what happened at the first-ever Worthy Successor event on Sunday:


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@ginevlily covered some of the core philosophical assumptions underlying current AGI discourse

one of my fav slides is this one, where she points out that current discourse is ENTIRELY focused on a world where aligning a mind vastly beyond humanity is (a) net beneficial [to human and other life], (b) possible, (c) ethical [i.e. the right thing to do].

she rightly points out that the likelihood of these 3 points all being the case is seriously questionable, and we ought consider futures where these things aren't possible --

-- hence, serious discussion about posthuman intelligence trajectories

1/6 - The "Executives: AI is not IT" thread

When people ask me why so many enterprise #AI projects fail, I am often able to sum it up in a single word:

"Expectations."

emerj.com/ai-executive-g… 2/6

Leadership isn't aware of what AI can do, what it's strategic value is. Worse still, leadership sees AI as just a new kind of IT. "Plug it in" and we're all set.

There are a number of reasons why AI is not like IT, here's a few that more boardrooms should understand:

1/9 <-- Buckle up...

@Microsoft invests $1Billion into @OpenAI with the express purpose of building "Beneficial artificial general intelligence (#AGI)."

openai.com/blog/microsoft

Mark my words, here's what you can expect: -- A number of Chinese initiatives of a similar overtly AGI-focused nature
-- Maybe one such similar initiative in Japan/EU (but with notably less funding and fanfare than those in #USA/#China)

(#Europe will try to compete w/regulation, not AGI itself - emerj.com/ai-power/regul…)