Why No One Talks About AGI Risk
AGI risk seems lower than it is because the people who know that AGI risk exists are almost all incentivized against talking about it openly. Broadly, there are two groups…
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AGI risk seems lower than it is because the people who know that AGI risk exists are almost all incentivized against talking about it openly. Broadly, there are two groups…
Some AI thinkers and funders believe that any governance is a net negative for innovation, and signals dictatorship or oligarchy. Arguments for this position include: In this article I’ll argue…
If there was a global AI-caused disaster, would that bring about the real possibility of global AI policy and coordination? I’m very much of the belief that a brute arms…
In my discussions around posthumanism and AGI, I’ve noticed something curious: Almost all discussions in the intergovernmental world, tech media, and social media center around specific policy decisions – not…
In 1985, Microsoft was an underdog “good guy” – standing against big evil corps like IBM. In 2003, Google was an underdog “good guy” in a world of big evil…
Once the grand vision of artificial general intelligence (or the general importance of AI Power in the years ahead) is seen or, there are only two main responses from extremely…
In history, we are reminded that all is in flux. America is likened to Rome. China today is likened to the Tang Dynasty many centuries ago. Europe was pure barbarity,…
The Political Singularity hypothesis: At some point in the 21st century, global and national politics will center entirely around the questions related to the (a) creation and (b) control of…
The Shamefully Poor State of Human Wellbeing “For when he saw that almost all things necessarily required for subsistence, and which may render life comfortable, are already prepared to their…
The substrate monopoly hypothesis: In the remaining part of the 21st century, all competition between the world’s most powerful nations or organizations (whether economic competition, political competition, or military conflict)…