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Breakthroughs in Computing · Protocol Labs Speaker Series · Feb 2023

Path to AGI, AI Alignment, and Digital Minds

Nick Bostrom (Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, author of Superintelligence) and Juan Benet discuss the most plausible paths to artificial general intelligence, what alignment actually requires technically, and the philosophical status of digital minds. Bostrom examines why the alignment problem is so hard, what orthogonality and instrumental convergence imply for AI risk, and how human-level AI might arrive suddenly via recursive self-improvement. A foundational conversation on the civilisational stakes of AI development.

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