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From: Jeffrey <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 12:37 AM To: Ben Goertzel Subject: Re: "Coping with Future Catastrophes" conference: suggestions Ok Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > • I'll send you an update on my AGI project (which is going reasonably > well) sometime soon, but what occasioned this email was reading the > press release for your upcoming meeting on global risks in Dubai: > http://www.pr.com/press-release/403599 > This topic interests me a lot as you probably know ... attached find > an almost-final version of a paper on how to mitigate the potential > risks of advanced AGI systems, which is going to be published shortly > in the Journal of Evolution and Technology. > So if you see fit, it would be great for you to reserve a slot for me > at the Dubai meeting. ;-) > Also, I have some other suggestions for you... > You might want to consider inviting Steve Omohundro, who has written > some pretty insightful stuff about the potential existential risks > posed by AGI.... His paper on Basic Al Drives is a good one > http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/11/30/paper-on-the-basic-ai-drives/ > and I suspect it will appeal to you. Steve and I gave talks together > with Larry Krauss (whom it seems you know) at the Singularity Summit > Australia last year... > There're also the Singularity Institute for Al guys, who are obsessed > with the topic of AGI and existential risk. Some of the SIAI guys are > too kooky for my taste; but Luke Muelhauser, their director, is > reasonably solid.. > http://singinst.org/aboutus/team > Another very obvious suggestion is Nick Bostrom, who coined the term > "existential risks", and heads the Future of Humanity Institute at EFTA_R1_01708755 EFTA02552150 > Oxford. We're actually having our AGI 2012 conference at Oxford, and > alongside the technical AGI presentations we'll have some discussions > with Nick and his Oxford philosophy team on AGI-related "future > catastrophe" stuff. > Finally Paul Werbos > http://www.werbos.com/ > is a brilliant cross-disciplinary scientist who knows a hell of a lot > about the risks facing humanity on all levels, due to his position > with the NSF. He's a rare case of a guy who's a broad-minded, wildly > imaginative thinker and ALSO very tight w/ US government science, > engineering, military, intelligence, etc. > These folks all represent a community that has thought about, and > discussed, the "future catastrophes" issue quite a lot, and probably > would have a lot to add to your Future Catastrophes conference. > And as I said, more on the AGI work a little later ;) > thanks much > Ben > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > <EDITED_GoertzelNineWaysToFriendlyAl_v6_BG> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>215789</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1333672550</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>remote-id</key> <string>215885</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01708756 EFTA02552151