Max Tegmark

So there's really only one small subset of people against.

who benefit from the creation of general or super intelligence.

That's going to be the tech oligarchs.

As I've said many times, if anyone says they're going to bring about a radical change in your life, you have to ask for whose benefit.

And the Altman statement, you know, Max and I were texting about this earlier, and the full statement is worth pondering.

This is Sam Altman in his blog post, The Merge.

We will be the first species ever to design our own descendants.

My guess is that we can either be the biological bootloader for digital intelligence, meaning that humans are useless afterwards,

and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.

And it's worth noting that Altman, about two months ago, began investing in a brain-computer interface company for implanted brain chips, of course called The Merge.

Joe Allen, you've got some updates for us?

Yeah, one of the biggest criticisms going towards the push to ban superintelligence is it doesn't exist.

It's just a dream.

Same with artificial general intelligence.

Most people conceive of superintelligence as being the next step after general intelligence.

General intelligence being able to understand its own system and to rewrite its own code until you hit an intelligence explosion.

I just want to turn the audience's attention to a recent paper put out by Dan Hendricks et al.

at the Center for AI Safety on a definition of artificial general intelligence.

Without going into the

maze of linguistic traps around general intelligence.