Craig Kaplan has been thinking about superintelligence longer than most. He bought the URL superintelligence.com back in 2006, and many years before that, in the late 1980s, he co-authored a series of papers with one of the founding fathers of AI, Herbert Simon. Craig started his career as a scientist with IBM, and later founded and ran a venture-backed company called PredictWallStreet that brought the wisdom of the crowd to Wall Street, and improved the performance of leading hedge funds. He sold that company in 2020, and now spends his time working out how to make the first superintelligence safe. As he puts it, he wants to reduce P(Doom) and increase P(Zoom). Selected follow-ups: iQ Company Superintelligence - by iQ Company Herbert A. Simon - Wikipedia Amara’s Law and Its Place in the Future of Tech - Pohan Lin The Society of Mind - book by Marvin Minsky AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google - BBC News Statement on AI Risk - Center for AI Safety I’ve Spent My Life Measuring Risk. AI Rings Every One of My Alarm Bells - Paul Tudor Jones Secrets of Software Quality: 40 Innovations from IBM - book by Craig Kaplan London Futurists Podcast episode featuring David Brin Reason in human affairs - book by Herbert Simon US and China will intervene to halt ‘suicide race’ of AGI – Max Tegmark If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies - book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares AGI-25 - conference in Reykjavik The First Global Brain Workshop - Brussels 2001 Center for Integrated Cognition Paul S. Rosenbloom Tatiana Shavrina, Meta Henry Minsky launches AI startup inspired by father’s MIT research Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, availabl How Hacks Happen Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify PodMatch PodMatch Automatically Matches Ideal Podcast Guests and Hosts For Interviews
