Foresight Institute - Advancing Beneficial Technologies

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Foresight Institute HomeAllison2020-06-08T08:55:27-07:00 Donate today for better tomorrowsForesight is entirely funded by your donations.Donate TodayJoin Foresight s newsletterUpdates when we publish events content. Leave this field empty if you're human: Advancing Technology for the Long-term Benefit of Life Foresight Institute is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1986 on a vision of coming revolutions in technology that will bring extraordinary opportunities, as well as unprecedented challenges. Foresight’s mission is to steer those revolutions toward futures of Existential Hope.If we push in the right directions — learning, teaching, arguing, shifting directions, and pushing further — then we may yet steer the technology race toward a future with room enough for our dreams.—K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation  Join our reflection on creating positive futuresWeekly Online SalonsJune 4 @ 11:00 am - December 4 @ 12:00 pm PDT Molecular Precision for Climate and Environment: Foresight Technical CompetitionSeptember 5 - September 6All our eventsAll our videosNews and UpdatesComments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction iconsForesight Institute 06.30.20 We’re sad to report that Foresight has lost one of its previous leaders this past weekend: Scott Mize, past president of the Foresight Institute. Ever a man of action, Scott was reportedly out walking in the San Francisco sunshine when a hemorrhagic stroke took him. Besides his time as Foresight's president, Scott co-founded several companies, the most recent of which was helping startups with a mission for them to evolve, succeed and put some major dents in the universe. Our hearts are dented as well. Scott's loved ones have set up a memory page in his honor, which you can access below. ... See MoreSee LessRead Anthony Scott Mize s Obituary Leave Condolenceseverloved.comAnthony Scott Mize, entrepreneur, dealmaker, & advisor, passed away of a hemorrhagic stroke on Tuesday , June 23rd at the age of 58. Scott is survived by his m… ShareShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by EmailView CommentsLikes: 0Shares: 0Comments: 0Comment on Facebook Anthony Scott Mize, ...Foresight Institute 06.30.20 Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing Q A, July 2, 11 AM PT - mailchi.mp/foresight/scott-aaronson-qa ... See MoreSee LessShareShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by EmailView CommentsLikes: 0Shares: 0Comments: 0Comment on Facebook Scott Aaronson: ...Foresight Institute 06.11.20 Live in 1 hour: Artificial Superintelligence Coordination Strategy - mailchi.mp/foresight/live-in-1-hour-artificial-superintelligence-coordination-strategy ... See MoreSee LessShareShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by EmailView CommentsLikes: 6Shares: 0Comments: 2Comment on Facebook Live in 1 hour: ...What an amazing experience. Thank you for hosting. I will definitely be coming back www.the-mind.aiForesight Institute 06.05.20 Join Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination Strategy Round #2, Watch Round #1 Video - mailchi.mp/foresight/invite-to-artificial-superintelligence-coordination-strategy-round-2-watch-r... ... See MoreSee LessShareShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by EmailView CommentsLikes: 1Shares: 0Comments: 0Comment on Facebook 50982112777_10158238131007778Foresight Institute 06.04.20 The video of today's salon is live: Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination StrategyAllison Dman introduces the Big Data Cognitive Computing Magazine special issue, turned book Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination Strategy, which she co-edited with Roman V. Yampolskiy. Freely available here: www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2257David Manheim and Nell Watson present their fantastic chapters (abstract below)Multiparty Dynamics and Failure Modes for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligenceby David ManheimAn important challenge for safety in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems is a set of related failures involving specification gaming, reward hacking, fragility to distributional shifts, and Goodhart’s or Campbell’s law. This paper presents additional failure modes for interactions within multi-agent systems that are closely related. These multi-agent failure modes are more complex, more problematic, and less well understood than the single-agent case, and are also already occurring, largely unnoticed. After motivating the discussion with examples from poker-playing artificial intelligence (AI), the paper explains why these failure modes are in some senses unavoidable. Following this, the paper categorizes failure modes, provides definitions, and cites examples for each of the modes: accidental steering, coordination failures, adversarial misalignment, input spoofing and filtering, and goal co-option or direct hacking. The paper then discusses how extant literature on multi-agent AI fails to address these failure modes, and identifies work which may be useful for the mitigation of these failure modes.The Supermoral Singularity—AI as a Fountain of Valuesby Nell WatsonThis article looks at the problem of moral singularity in the development of artificial intelligence. We are now on the verge of major breakthroughs in machine technology where autonomous robots that can make their own decisions will become an integral part of our way of life. This article presents a qualitative, comparative approach, which considers the differences between humans and machines, especially in relation to morality, and is grounded in historical and contemporary examples. This argument suggests that it is difficult to apply models of human morality and evolution to machines and that the creation of super-intelligent robots that will be able to make moral decisions could have potentially serious consequences. A runaway moral singularity could result in machines seeking to confront human moral transgressions in a quest to eliminate all forms of evil. This might also culminate in an all-out war in which humanity might be defeated.We close with a brief discussion amongst Roman, David, Nell, and me on AI coordination, likely failure modes and potential upsides in the context of the current pandemic.While our team dropped off eventually, many participants stayed on for 2 hours after the salon in the breakout rooms. Congratulations on the longest salon yet

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