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 How Hacks Happen Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
