Presenter Anna Yelizarova, Future of Life Institute Interests: AI safety and alignment, AI governance and ethics, global coordination, tech policy, computational social science, Disinformation. As a Stanford student, I completed a Bachelor’s in Computer Science with a focus in Human Computer Interaction and a Master’s Degree in Communication with a focus on Media Studies. My… Continue reading Anna Yelizarova, Future of Life Institute | Windfall Trust
Presenter Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Imperial College Jonathan is a senior research scientist at Flashbots (https://www.flashbots.net/). He is exploring the application of Privacy Enhancing Technologies to solve hard problems such as decentralised collaborative learning and Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) in blockchains. He has grown a strong expertise in Secure Computing (Trusted Execution Environments – TEEs, FHE, …),… Continue reading Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Imperial College | Challenges on the Path to Decentralized AI
Presenter Robin Hanson, George Mason University Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known as an expert on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and… Continue reading Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred
Presenter Juan Benet, Filecoin Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency incentivized storage network. The IPFS Project has grown into a large open-source movement to re-decentralize the web, safeguard our data, and improve our applications.… Continue reading Juan Benet, Filecoin | Crypto Tools for Paretotopia
Presenter Mark Miller, Agoric Mark S. Miller is a Chief Scientist at Agoric. He is a pioneer of agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing and smart contracts, the main designer of the E and Dr. SES distributed persistent object-capability programming languages, inventor of Miller Columns, an architect of the Xanadu hypertext publishing system… Summary: Humans cooperate… Continue reading Mark S. Miller, Agoric | Computational Markets & Agoric Systems
Presenter Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute Alison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Groups, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees. She shares Foresight’s work with the public, for instance at the Wall Street Journal, SXSW, O’Reilly AI, WEF, The Partnership… Continue reading Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute | The Long term Potential of Cryptocommerce