@adamford.bsky.social
Blogs at scifuture.org - posts videos at : youtube.com/@scfu
Video on AI Welfare with Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social
-he argues that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future. That means that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsq2...
New Interview with Nick Bostrom: From #Superintelligence to Deep #Utopia. #AI has surged from theoretical speculation to powerful, world-shaping reality. Now we have a shot at avoiding catastrophe and ensuring resilience, meaning, and flourishing in a ‘solved’ world.
youtu.be/8EQbjSHKB9c?...
Here is a cartoon I generated for a talk I'm giving, took longer than expected to get it right, and still needed to edit it afterwards - yet I'm still impressed.
Any pointers on generating cartoons?
Ken Mogi - AI, Consciousness & Empathy
#AI #consciousness #empathy youtube.com/shorts/lhNiB... @kenmogi.bsky.social
Super excited! Interviewing Nick Bostrom again in a few days - last time was in 2012. We will cover topics that range from Superintelligence to Deep Utopia.
AI Safety through mathematical precision or swiss-cheese security?
What about Indirect Normativity?
www.scifuture.org/forthcoming-...
Nick Bostrom on the opportunities of technological progress - it's not all doom and gloom.
youtube.com/shorts/Ar6Od...
Hey, I've got 2 followers on Bandcamp - want more - so please follow me, and I'll upload some fun sounds for you :)
scifuture.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Join Ken Mogi & Shun Yoshizawa for a mind-bending Future Day talk on metacognition in LLMs! Can AI think about thinking? Dive into the future of intelligence at #FutureDay -
@kenmogi.bsky.social
www.scifuture.org/metacognitio...
Robin Hanson's talk 'Our Big Oops: We Broke Humanity’s Superpower' is on at Feb 28th 13:30 PST at Future Day
www.scifuture.org/events/futur...
.."as that needs natural selection of whole cultures. We now have less variety, weaker selection pressures, and faster changes from context and cultural activism. Our options to fix are neither easy nor attractive." - see www.scifuture.org/our-big-oops...
27.02.2025 02:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At Future Day @robinhanson.bsky.social Robin Hanson will argue that "humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution. Which still goes great for behaviors that can easily vary locally, like most tech and business practices. But modernity has plausibly broken our evolution of shared norms and values..."
27.02.2025 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1What do people want from AI safety? The wise might dream of a better world; the greedy might just want a leash on the chaos.
25.02.2025 09:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi Ken, hope to see you at Future Day
20.02.2025 01:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Link: www.scifuture.org/james-barrat...
20.02.2025 01:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to announce that James Barrat will discuss his up an coming book 'The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything' at #FutureDay this year!
He is also the author of the best selling book 'Our Final Invention'
Link in the comments 🧵
Future Day - A day to think ahead - before the future thinks for us!
Join us for Future Day! 🧵link in the 1st comment
The Book : www.penguin.com.au/books/the-da...
03.02.2025 20:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just finished hosting a fascinating & inspiring discussion on 'The Darwinian Trap' /w Anders Sandberg & Kristian Rönn covering: game theory, the current AI arms races, moloch vs cooperative dynamics & solutions to seemingly intractable problems - I'll release it soon!
@arenamontanus.bsky.social
Ryan and Savulescu: semaglutide should be an option generally made available to patients for weight loss within the limits of responsible ethical practice.
jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
"It's not how well the system works, it's what happens when it fails that distinguishes a Utopia from a Dystopia"
Part of my interview with Cory Doctorow on Utopias in Fiction (Melbourne 2014)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1u2...
I really enjoyed Iain M. Banks scifi novel The Player of Games - what grabbed me at the end was the chapter machina ex machina (machine form the machine) - which was a battle of ideologies. Definitely worth a read!
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