Event Description
We alternately dread, worship and dismiss the arrival of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Yet the real superintelligences already surround us: religions, corporations, markets and democracies. This talk will welcome us to imagine not how we can build ASI that defeats us in all things, but instead how we can, together with our environment and machines, become a collectively self-aware global superintelligence.
Using economic theory as a translational formalism, this will illustrate how we can build core sociological ideas like community into algorithmic design and transform focal technical structures like neural networks into the design of social institutions. By transcending the misleading divide between social and technical systems, such joint engineering suggests a path away from both fear of ASI domination and its disappointing real-world performance.
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage for additional information. Please email Alexis Avedisian at [email protected] with any questions.
Hosted by the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.
