Can current AI really reason - or are LLMs just clever parrots, skipping the "understanding" step humans rely on? @bengoertzel.bsky.social argues that there is a big difference between appearing to reason & building abstract representations required for reasoning youtu.be/vVTnfoO-uzc

Often people talk about the selection pressures imposed by environments while forgetting about the agents in the environment or treating them as dumb features of the environment... what sets apart intelligent agents in the environment, is that their wants and values shape selection pressures too...

If we had non-negligible credence that we could create ASI that was robustly more moral than us, would we be obliged to try? And if so, how much resources should we devoting to this? www.scifuture.org/more-moral-t...

Video on AI Welfare with Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social -he argues that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future. That means that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsq2...

New Interview with Nick Bostrom: From #Superintelligence to Deep #Utopia. #AI has surged from theoretical speculation to powerful, world-shaping reality. Now we have a shot at avoiding catastrophe and ensuring resilience, meaning, and flourishing in a ‘solved’ world. youtu.be/8EQbjSHKB9c?...

Here is a cartoon I generated for a talk I'm giving, took longer than expected to get it right, and still needed to edit it afterwards - yet I'm still impressed. Any pointers on generating cartoons?

Ken Mogi - AI, Consciousness & Empathy #AI #consciousness #empathy youtube.com/shorts/lhNiB... @kenmogi.bsky.social

Super excited! Interviewing Nick Bostrom again in a few days - last time was in 2012. We will cover topics that range from Superintelligence to Deep Utopia. AI Safety through mathematical precision or swiss-cheese security? What about Indirect Normativity? www.scifuture.org/forthcoming-...

Nick Bostrom on the opportunities of technological progress - it's not all doom and gloom. youtube.com/shorts/Ar6Od...

Hey, I've got 2 followers on Bandcamp - want more - so please follow me, and I'll upload some fun sounds for you :) scifuture.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Join Ken Mogi & Shun Yoshizawa for a mind-bending Future Day talk on metacognition in LLMs! Can AI think about thinking? Dive into the future of intelligence at #FutureDay - @kenmogi.bsky.social www.scifuture.org/metacognitio...

At Future Day @robinhanson.bsky.social Robin Hanson will argue that "humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution. Which still goes great for behaviors that can easily vary locally, like most tech and business practices. But modernity has plausibly broken our evolution of shared norms and values..."

What do people want from AI safety? The wise might dream of a better world; the greedy might just want a leash on the chaos.

Excited to announce that James Barrat will discuss his up an coming book 'The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything' at #FutureDay this year! He is also the author of the best selling book 'Our Final Invention' Link in the comments 🧵

Future Day - A day to think ahead - before the future thinks for us! Join us for Future Day! 🧵link in the 1st comment

Just finished hosting a fascinating & inspiring discussion on 'The Darwinian Trap' /w Anders Sandberg & Kristian Rönn covering: game theory, the current AI arms races, moloch vs cooperative dynamics & solutions to seemingly intractable problems - I'll release it soon! @arenamontanus.bsky.social

Ryan and Savulescu: semaglutide should be an option generally made available to patients for weight loss within the limits of responsible ethical practice. jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

"It's not how well the system works, it's what happens when it fails that distinguishes a Utopia from a Dystopia" Part of my interview with Cory Doctorow on Utopias in Fiction (Melbourne 2014) www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1u2...

I really enjoyed Iain M. Banks scifi novel The Player of Games - what grabbed me at the end was the chapter machina ex machina (machine form the machine) - which was a battle of ideologies. Definitely worth a read!