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Neurotech Special: Whole Brain Emulation and Artificial General Intelligence

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Future of AI

I run a brain preservation company called Nectome that is based on trying to preserve brains to eventually upload them. The logic behind that is that I think will eventually have the technology to read these brains and essentially emulate them. But by my own metrics judging whether an AI would be what I would consider generally intelligent, I would judge something like Chachi Pto already be generally intelligent. And I think that's very substantial. It clearly hasn't gotten to destroy the world yet.

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