AI research has been making steady progress and has experienced an inflection point in the past few years with the introduction of the transformer architecture and related breakthroughs. For the first time in history, we are discussing the real potential of creating AGI soon.
We are not prepared for the introduction of AGI.
AGI has real existential threats from misalignment with humans. Even if we overcome this alignment problem, we are likely to experience societal disruption on a scale unseen as we renegotiate our social contracts globally. Our philosophy of being will be challenged as many of the traits we have assigned uniquely to humans become a commodity.
We need to be having real discussions on these topics now.
The Seattle AI Society 2024 AGI Transitions Program will gather brilliant minds from across domains, perspectives, and backgrounds to envision a beautiful future for humanity and our world.