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Our guest in this episode is Lou de K, Program Director at the Foresight Institute.
David recently saw Lou give a marvellous talk at the TransVision conference in Utrecht in the Netherlands, on the subject of “AGI Alignment: Challenges and Hope”. Lou kindly agreed to join us to review some of the ideas in that talk and to explore their consequences.
Selected follow-ups:
- Personal website of Lou de K (Lou de Kerhuelvez)
- Foresight.org
- TransVision Utrecht 2024
- The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence by Tim Urban on Wait But Why
- AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey - 98 page PDF with authors from Peking University and other universities
- Synthetic Sentience: Can Artificial Intelligence become conscious? - Talk by Joscha Bach at CCC, December 2023
- Pope Francis "warns of risks of AI for peace" (Vatican News)
- Claude's Constitution by Anthropic
- Roman Yampolskiy discusses multi-multi alignment (Future of Life podcast)
- Shoggoth with Smiley Face on Know Your Meme
- Shoggoth on AISafetyMemes on X/Twitter
- Orthogonality Thesis on LessWrong
- Quotes by the poet Lucille Clifton
- Decentralized science (DeSci) on Ethereum.org
- Listing of Foresight Institute fellows
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- The Network State vs. Coordi-Nations featuring the ideas of Primavera De Filippi
- DeSci London event, Imperial College Business School, 23-24 March
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
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1. AGI alignment: the case for hope, with Lou de K (00:00:00)
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3. (Cont.) AGI alignment: the case for hope, with Lou de K (00:11:56)
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