Introduction

Our guest in this episode is Lou de K, Program Director at the Foresight Institute.

David recently saw Lou give a marvellous talk at the TransVision conference in Utrecht in the Netherlands, on the subject of “AGI Alignment: Challenges and Hope”. Lou kindly agreed to join us to review some of the ideas in that talk and to explore their consequences. 

Selected follow-ups:

• Personal website of Lou de K (Lou de Kerhuelvez)
• Foresight.org
• TransVision Utrecht 2024
• The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence by Tim Urban on Wait But Why
• AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey - 98 page PDF with authors from Peking University and other universities
• Synthetic Sentience: Can Artificial Intelligence become conscious? - Talk by Joscha Bach at CCC, December 2023
• Pope Francis "warns of risks of AI for peace" (Vatican News)
• Claude's Constitution by Anthropic
• Roman Yampolskiy discusses multi-multi alignment (Future of Life podcast)
• Shoggoth with Smiley Face on Know Your Meme
• Shoggoth on AISafetyMemes on X/Twitter
• Orthogonality Thesis on LessWrong
• Quotes by the poet Lucille Clifton
• Decentralized science (DeSci) on Ethereum.org
• Listing of Foresight Institute fellows
• The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
• The Network State vs. Coordi-Nations featuring the ideas of Primavera De Filippi
• DeSci London event, Imperial College Business School, 23-24 March

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration