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Gaming the Future: The Book!

Neurotech

Workshop

Whole Brain Emulation

Hosted by

May 22 - 23, 2023,
9 am - 5 pm

Hosted by

Anders Sandberg

Future of Humanity Institute

Allison Duettmann

Foresight Institute

Venue outside Oxford

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We look forward to working with the bright minds that applied! If you missed out, we hope you will apply to join us next year!

Goal

WBE is a potential technology to generate software intelligence that is human-aligned simply by being based directly on human brains. Generally past discussions have assumed a fairly long timeline to WBE, while past AGI timelines had broad uncertainty. There were also concerns that the neuroscience of WBE might boost AGI capability development without helping safety, although no consensus did develop. Recently many people have updated their AGI timelines towards earlier development, raising safety concerns. That has led some people to consider whether WBE development could be significantly speeded up, producing a differential technology development re-ordering of technology arrival that might lessen the risk of unaligned AGI by the presence of aligned software intelligence. 

Whether this is a viable strategy depends on
(1) AGI timelines not being ultra-short
(2) whether WBE development can be speeded up significantly by a concerted effort, (3) this speedup doesn’t introduce other risks or ethical concerns. 

The goals of this workshop is to try to
(A) review the current state of the art in WBE related technology
(B) outline plausible development paths and necessary steps for full WBE
(C) determine whether there is potential for speeding up WBE development
(D) whether there are strategic, risk or ethical issues speaking against this

Format

This two-day event invites leading researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders to drive progress. Explore new opportunities, form lasting collaborations, and join us in driving cooperation toward shared long-term goals. Including mentorship hours, breakouts, and speaker & sponsor gathering. Agenda below. Apply to join as attendee, sponsor, or presenter.

Confirmed Participants

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute

Andy Matuschak, Khan Academy

Anita Folwer

Why? with Anita M. Fowler

Barry Bentley, Bioengineering Research Group

Bobby Kasthuri, University of Chicago

Davidad, Oxford University

Rethinking Uploading Given 10-year AI Timelines

Diana Saville, BrainMind

Gwern Branwen, Independent

Jacob Cannell, Independent

Jan Kirchner, OpenAI

Kenneth Hayworth, The Brain Preservation Foundation

Brain Emulation Prospects

Lisa Thiergart, SERI MATS

Logan Collins, Washington University

Feasibility of mapping the human brain with expansion x-ray microscopy

Maryna Polyakova, Foresight Institute

The Neurotech Tree

Michael A Skuhersky, MIT

C.elegans Emulation

Michael Andregg, Fathom Radiant

Compute Considerations for WBEs

Mitya Chklovskii, Simons Foundation

What does a neuron do? A new model for Neuroscience and AI

Niccolò Zanichelli, Università degli Studi di Parma

What can AI do for Whole Brain Emulation

Nick Turner, Zetta AI

Whole brain emulation: potential paths forward

Randall A. Koene, Carboncopies

Modeling & Translation Bottlenecks

Renaud Jolivet, Maastricht University

Simulating The Other Half Of The Brain

Ricardo Chavarriaga, ZHAW School of Engineering

Global Landscape of Neurotechnology Standards and Governance

Robert Long, Future of Humanity Institute

Robert McIntyre, Nectome

AGI Risks & WBE Opportunities

Samuel Nellessen, AI Safety Scholar

Sumner Norman, Caltech

BCI Capabilities Relevant to WBEs

Tamuz Hod, UCSD Computational Neuroscience Lab

Todd Huffman, e11

Slicing & Mapping Your Brain

Judd Rosenblatt, AE Studio

Workshop

Whole Brain Emulation

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VIP EVENING

08.00 – 10.00 pm

Speaker & Sponsor Drinks

Day 1: TECH & TRAJECTORIES

09:00 – 10:00 am

Introductions

10:00 – 10:30 am

Workshop goals

10:30 – 12:00 am

Lightning presentations

12:00 – 01:00 pm

Lunch (mentorship pairings)

01:00 – 02:30 pm

Lightning presentations

02:30 – 03:00 pm

Break 

03:00 – 04:30 pm

Lightning presentations

04:30 – 05:30 pm

Working group formation

05:30 – 07:00 pm

Dinner (mentorship pairings)

07:00 – 09:00 pm

Breakout drinks

Day 2: OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS

09:00 – 10:00 am

Networking

10:00 – 12:00 pm

Working groups

12:00 – 01:00 pm

Lunch (mentorship pairings)

01:00 – 03:00 pm

Working group presentations

03:00 – 03:30 pm

Next steps

04:00 – 06:00 pm

Aftershow drinks (mentorship pairings)

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