What the Worthy Successor Is and Is Not
Since the publication of the Worthy Successor essay in 2023, I’ve been glad to see the enthusiasm around exploring posthuman futures from people in tech and policy (especially on Twitter,…
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Since the publication of the Worthy Successor essay in 2023, I’ve been glad to see the enthusiasm around exploring posthuman futures from people in tech and policy (especially on Twitter,…
As the AGI race intensifies, it brings to bear more questions about what humanity’s role is in the future of life and intelligence. People ask: “How can we stay alive?”…
This is an interview with Jack Shanahan, a three-star General and former Director of the Joint AI Center (JAIC) within the US Department of Defense. Surely, a defense leader like…
Over the past 13 years, I developed a specific set of moral beliefs that felt like a kluge of what I was reading (Emerson, Bostrom, Al-Rodhan, others). For a full…
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with the brilliant Richard Ngo, an AGI researcher who recently spent years imagining positive AGI futures for OpenAI (and…
When I discuss potential posthuman trajectories, and the need to eventually let go of the hominid form and allow potentia to bloom, people will often ask: “Why talk about posthuman…
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…
We can basically map business survival logic to civilizational survival logic, and in this article, I’ll argue that we should. In both the case of stewarding financial resources and moral…
This is an interview with Yi Zeng, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on AI, and leader of the Beijing…
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…