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.orgTransVision Utrecht 2024The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence by Tim Urban on Wait But WhyAI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey - 98 page PDF with authors from Peking University and other universitiesSynthetic Sentience: Can Artificial Intelligence become conscious? - Talk by Joscha Bach at CCC, December 2023Pope Francis "warns of risks of AI for peace" (Vatican News)Claude's Constitution by AnthropicRoman Yampolskiy discusses multi-multi alignment (Future of Life podcast)Shoggoth with Smiley Face on Know Your MemeShoggoth on AISafetyMemes on X/TwitterOrthogonality Thesis on LessWrongQuotes by the poet Lucille CliftonDecentralized science (DeSci) on Ethereum.orgListing of Foresight Institute fellowsThe Network State by Balaji SrinivasanThe Network State vs. Coordi-Nations featuring the ideas of Primavera De FilippiDeSci London event, Imperial College Business School, 23-24 MarchMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain DeclarationThe Code of Entry PodcastThe Code of Entry Podcast, hosted by the insightful Greg Bew, delves deep into the...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify