First, do no harm.
“It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.“ — Prof. Stuart Russell
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” — Actual AI output. Published 13 November 2024 at 03:32
“These things really do understand.” — Nobel laureate, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” at University of Oxford, Romanes Lecture
“I’m on Team Human. AI for humans, not AGI. Let’s build AI systems with goals we can confidently control.” — Prof. Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute
Editors’ humble opinion based on AI technology thought leaders over the past 80 years… we are all now in extremely deep trouble. ANALYZE THE DATA.
We believe Von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Good, Clarke, Hawking, Musk, Bostrom, Tegmark, Russell, Bengio, Hinton, and thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Learn more: The Containment Problem and The AI Safety Problem
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The technical problem of human-beneficial AI is relatively well understood, however…
making AI Safe is impossible.
The technical solutions are currently unknown to making Safe AI.
Containment and control of AI is the requirement, forever.
Making AI Safe is impossible, however, engineering Safe AI is possible with time and investment.
We need mathematically provable guarantees of Safe AI.
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Keep The Future Human by Anthony Aguirre
Stuart Russell OBE, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Director, Center for Human-Compatible AI "Keep the Future Human makes three very simple points. First, creating artificial intelligence is suicidal. Second, we're doing it because we think it will yield enormous benefits. Third, we can get those enormous benefits [...]
OBSOLETE – Will AI take your job? | DaganOnAI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Great new documentary. People who claim there will still be jobs after superintelligence don't understand what superintelligence means. https://t.co/puXj1OpWRU — Max Tegmark (@tegmark) March 5, 2025 [...]
Brief History Lesson on Homo sapiens. The Future of Life. IASEAI. NIST AISIC. Risk-Reward of AI. P(doom)Fixer. Money Thesis.
THESIS: HUMAN SURVIVAL IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY Belief in "The Story" of Money = Human Cooperation Competition for Money (and Power) = Human Conflict 1. FACT: COOPERATION IS EVERYTHING Humans (Homo sapiens) currently Control the Future of Life on Earth due to Intelligence and Evolution of Cooperation in very [...]
Evolution of Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) expected to arrive in 1 to 2 years. Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) expected to arrive by 2028 or 2029. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "It doesn't take [...]
On the Origin of Species: Chapter III. Struggle for Existence. Chapter IV. Natural Selection. Chapter VII. Instinct. (1859) Charles Darwin
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (1859) Charles Darwin: Chapter III. Struggle for Existence. Struggle for life most [...]
The ‘godfather of AI’ predicts whether it will take over the world | LBC
HINTON. For this technology this is more like the Industrial Revolution. In the industrial revolution machines made human strength more or less irrelevant. You you didn't have people digging ditches anymore because machines are just better at it. I think these [AI] are going to make sort of mundane [...]
Prominent AI scientist Max Tegmark explains why AI companies should be regulated | CNBC Television
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Evolutionary Perspective… (1) Coelacanths: 410 million years. (2) Corals: 210 million years. (3) Homo sapiens: 300 thousand years.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE. Coelacanths, Corals... and Homo sapiens Learn more The Coelacanths survived 410 million years - Wikipedia The Corals survived for 210 million years with mutualistic symbiosis - Princeton University Humans (Homo [...]
EASY to UNDERSTAND. Two Probable (P) Biological Outcomes for Homo sapiens: (1) P(Doom) = 100% or (2) P(Prosperity) = 100%
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. EASY to UNDERSTAND: IF Option 1 does not appear to be a realistic strategy, THEN the two remaining Probable (P) biological outcomes for Homo sapiens, with absolute biological certainty, are therefore: Option [...]
Awakening the Machine. MAX TEGMARK On AGI. P(doom) or P(prosperity)
"Nobody knows for sure when we're going to get artificial general intelligence. They can outsmart us, kind of, across the board. But The Tipping Point is now because once we get too close to it we'll already have lost a bit too much control, I think, as a [...]
The Center for AI Safety. Statement on AI Risk. AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk. (2023)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI. Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most [...]
Ilya Sutskever at NeurIPS 2024 on Super Intelligence: “I’m not saying how… and I’m not saying when. I’m saying that it will.” (reason, understand and become self-aware)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "I'm not saying how by the way, and I'm not saying when, I'm saying that it will. And when all those things will happen together with self-awareness... when all [...]
BLOOMBERG 29 Oct 2024, ELON MUSK: AGI possible “within the next year or two”. Probability of Human Extinction? P(doom) = 10 to 20%
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BLOOMBERG 29 Oct 2024, ELON MUSK: AGI possible "within the next year or two". Probability of Human Extinction? P(doom) = 10 to 20% [...]
Grok is now free for everyone.
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‘Godfather of AI’ says it could drive humans extinct in 10 years – The Telegraph
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. ‘Godfather of AI’ says it could drive humans extinct in 10 years - The Telegraph by Tom McArdle 27 December 2024 12:13pm GMT Prof Geoffrey Hinton says the technology is developing faster [...]
Why we should build Tool AI, not AGI | Max Tegmark at WebSummit 2024 | Future of Life Institute
"I'm on team human. I'm going to fight for the right of my one-year-old son to have a meaningful future, even if some digital eugenics dude feels that his robots are somehow more worthy." --- Max Tegmark FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. [...]
15-Minute Intro to AI Doom | Doom Debates
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 15-Minute Intro to AI Doom | Doom Debates 2,205 views 1 month ago Our top researchers and industry leaders have been warning us that superintelligent AI may cause human [...]
Lethal Intelligence Guide [Part 1] – The Ultimate Introduction to Existential Risk from upcoming AI.
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Awakening the Machine: Jaan Tallinn
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Awakening the Machine: Jaan Tallinn For a long time. For more than a decade. In fact, there was this period during which, these concerns seemed fairly [...]
Awakening the Machine: Tim Urban
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Awakening the Machine: Dan Hendrycks
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Awakening the Machine: Dan Hendrycks Blokhaus One of the reasons why humans are in control of so much is because we are the most intelligent. We're [...]
“Don’t have temporary people make permanent decisions.” — Albert R. Broccoli
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Learn more: Wikipedia IMDB. Biography About EON/DANJAQ Albert R Broccoli, (1909–1996) also known as ‘Cubby’, was the driving force behind bringing James Bond to the big screen. [...]
The 10 Levels of Artificial Intelligence | AI Uncovered
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The 10 Levels of Artificial Intelligence | AI Uncovered Did you know that artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just one thing—it’s a spectrum of capabilities that range [...]
Fareed’s Take: Trump’s misguided push for a ‘manufacturing comeback’ CNN
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OpenAI Just Admitted They cant Control AI… TheAIGRID
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning models “think” in natural language understandable by humans. Monitoring their “thinking” has allowed us to detect misbehavior such as subverting tests in coding tasks, deceiving users, [...]
Vibe Coding Is The Future | Y Combinator
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works," Andrej Karpathy—co-founder of OpenAI, former AI director at Tesla Breaking News: "I just see stuff, [...]
Leading cyber security companies
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Towards Safe and Honest AI Agents with Neural Self-Other Overlap. Reducing LLM deception at scale with self-other overlap (SOO) fine-tuning
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Google Research. Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations
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Purpose of Corporation
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On Great Ideas (IP). William James (1842 – 1910)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. “A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to [...]
Nvidia CEO Huang: Our country should invest in AI and apply regulations where it makes sense | CNBC Television
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "What we announced yesterday is that we're going to take AI infrastructure into two new industries. One is enterprise IT half of the world's CapEx is in enterprise enterprises... and it's the [...]
The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity | Academy of Ideas
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META. Brain-to-Text Decoding: A Non-invasive Approach via Typing
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Basically, the biological activation in the brain, they tend to resemble the artificial activations in these [AI models]." Meta's Jean-Rémi King (@JeanRemiKing) reveals a stunning alignment between how our brains process language [...]
Future of the Trillion Dollar AI Industry.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Future of the Trillion Dollar AI Industry... Corporate Capital vs. Human Labor vs. Machine Intelligence. IF people have Capital to pay for the Services, THEN Data Centers and Services will prosper. Everything [...]
Standard Al Terminology
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Standard Al Terminology AGl: Al that can think like humans. CoT (Chain of Thought): Al thinking step-by-step. Al Agents: Autonomous programs that make decisions. Al Wrapper: Simplifies interaction with Al models. Al [...]
PARC Forum: Eric Schmidt on the future of AI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Eric Schmidt on AI safety: A "modest death event" (Chernobyl-level) might be the trigger for public understanding of the risks. He parallels this to the post-Hiroshima invention of mutually assured destruction, [...]
TECHCRUNCH. Google calls for weakened copyright and export rules in AI policy proposal | March 13, 2025
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Anthropic CEO: “90% of Code Will be Written by AI in 6 months” | Matthew Berman
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The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective | Richard Ngo, Lawrence Chan, Sören Mindermann
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Real Kung Fu Robot
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Experts show why WW3 over AI is nearly inevitable | Digital Engine
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REPORT. Superintelligence Strategy. Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) | Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt, Alexandr Wang
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. REPORT. Superintelligence Strategy | Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) | Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt, Alexandr Wang ABSTRACT. Rapid advances in [...]