Ramin Hassani

The gift of having something very super-intelligent is massive, and it can enable a lot of things for us.

But at the same time, we need to have control over that technology, because this is the first time that we're going to have a technology that's going to be better than all of humanity combined.

Thanks for having me.

Well, a little bit, yes.

So we are moving in that direction.

We're opening the black box.

We are trying to improve the control that we have as designers of AI systems in a way that you have a lot more control on the outcomes, on the outputs of an AI system.

And you can put boundaries around what you want them to do.

And that controllability is something that we want to create for AI and build systems that are fundamentally and inherently understandable.

The worm is called C. elegans.

This is the first animal that we had in its entire nervous system mapped.

You know, neuroscientists anatomically connected all the connections that exist in the brain of the worm, 302 neurons.

The scientists that designed this thing, they won Nobel Prizes.

And the reason for that is just the physiology.

fascinating fact that in the tree of evolution, 600 million years ago, we got split from this worm.

So it shares 75% genetic similarity to humans.

The fact that our nervous systems, our brains are actually inspired by the mapping of this kind of worm.

I thought that this would be a very good place to get started.

Also, you should know that the body of the worm is transparent.

You can see inside how things happen.