What are the best strategies for addressing risks from artificial superintelligence? In this 4-hour conversation, @ESYudkowsky and @marksammiller discuss their cruxes for disagreement.
While Eliezer advocates an international treaty that bans anyone from building it, Mark argues
Upcoming seminar with @microbeminded2 in our longevity biotech group this Wednesday, on how common viruses accumulated by humans over the course of a lifetime (the human virome) contribute to diseases of aging and inflammaging.
Apply to join:
Thank you, @protocollabs for doubling our MapsMap Prize to $60k!
Help us build an app for crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding maps of problems, technologies, or scientific fields.
Submission deadline March 1: mapsmap.devpost.com
Office hour January 25: discord.gg/nVcHH2a9
How can we use AI to accelerate research in biology and longevity? AlphaFold2’s ability to predict protein structures points at the potential, now we are inviting leading thinkers in AI and longevity research to explore the next leaps in areas like discovering new drugs and
Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation
We hear from @Zooko of @zcash & @1HowardWu of @AleoHQ about Zero-Knowledge Proofs, cryptographic techniques that can be employed to bring provable privacy and scalability. With full seminar summary!
New AI Nodes + important grant updates!
Exciting new chapter: we are launching two physical hubs – one in Berlin and one in San Francisco! With these nodes, we want to support ambitious researchers and builders who use AI to advance science and safety. The hubs combine grant
How can we use AI to bring new scientific breakthroughs in biology and longevity? Together with @vitalismorg and @LBF_org, we are inviting experts in AI, biology and longevity research for a two-day workshop. Join us to explore how AI can accelerate progress in areas like drug
Casey Handmer explores the scientific, technological, and logistical hurdles that make Mars such a challenging destination; and offers an insider's perspective on our journey towards making human life sustainable on Mars.
youtu.be/-RTF26JIG88@CJHandmer
Apply to Foresight’s AI Safety Grant Program covering the following categories:
Neurotechnology and Whole Brain Emulation for AI safety
Security and cryptography approaches for AI security
Safe and beneficial multipolar AI scenarios
Apply here: foresight.org/ai-safety
Giulio Ragazzon, @giuliosflask– Driven Chemical Processes. He is the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Driven Chemical Processes. His interests involve photochemistry to molecular machines, self-assembling systems and nanomaterials.
youtu.be/wgZeDeb4Eao
