Presenters David Ernst, Founder and CEO of Liquid US David Ernst is a leader of the liquid democracy movement and now a candidate for California Assembly District 19, which centers on the western half of San Francisco. Ernst began working as CTO of a startup called Numerai, a crypto-backed decentralized hedge fund that allows data… Continue reading David Ernst, Eduardo Beltraine, Tom W Bell | New Sovereignties Focus
Intelligent Cooperation Launch 2022 The Intelligent Cooperation group includes AI, machine learning, distributed computing, quantum computing, and cryptography technologies. The 2022 program is outlined in this discussion, and we get updates on current work from several Foresight fellows as well as mentors and past fellows. Key Takeaways: Many intelligent cooperation tech tree nodes were… Continue reading 2022 Group launch: Your Intelligent Cooperation Goals
Presenters Richard Mallah, Future of Life Institute Richard is Director of AI Projects at the Future of Life Institute, where he works to support the robust, safe, beneficent development of both short-term and long-term artificial intelligence via analysis, metaresearch, organization, research direction, and advocacy. Among his research interests at FLI are multiobjective ethical ensembles, semantic… Continue reading Richard Mallah, FLI & Georgios Kaissis, OpenMined | Q&A on AI & Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Presenters Christine Lemmer-Webber, Spritely Institute Christine Lemmer Webber works on decentralized/federated social network systems and on other technical issues surrounding expanding user freedom and agency. Christine co-authored and co-edited the W3C ActivityPub standard, which as of 2020 is the most popular and widely deployed web-based decentralized social network protocol to date. Their current work on… Continue reading Christine Lemmer-Webber | Randy Farmer | Re-Decentralizing Networked Communities
Presenters Zhu Xiaohu, Center for Safe AGI Xiaohu (Neil) Zhu is the Founder and Chief Scientist of University AI, an organization providing AI education and training for individuals and big companies in China. He got a master degree on AI in Nanjing University with a background on algorithmic game theory, mathematical logic, deep learning, and… Continue reading Zhu Xiaohu, Center for Safe AGI | Ontological anti-crisis and AI safety
Summary Anders dives into the far future, investigating how game theory might apply to galactic and universe scale civilizations. Conquest, diplomacy, and economic forces will be subject to constraints of light speed travel and emergent properties of space expansion. As our short term existential problems get solved, we may want to reflect on the future… Continue reading Anders Sandberg | Game Theory of Cooperating w. Extraterrestrial Intelligence & Future Civilizations
Summary The sel4 microkernel system was designed to be a highly secure yet open source framework. It functions on a level below the operating system, between the device hardware and user software layers. With one of the largest proofs of security in existence as well as successful real world implementation, this microkernel is one of… Continue reading Gernot Heiser | SeL4: Formal Proofs for Real-World Cybersecurity
