Will MacAskill

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Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy

Speaks on: AGI AI AI Policy AI Ethics AI Risk

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Location: United Kingdom

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Build artificial general intelligence
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I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. [...] My favourite version of an international AGI project is loosely modelled on Intelsat, an international project that developed the first global satellite communicat...
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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Another possibility, if there's a large enough intelligence explosion, is that the first project to build AGI organically becomes a de facto world government. This possibility is worth taking pretty seriously, given the stakes and the fact that an in...
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