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Inference is hosting some of the world’s leading experts for a debate on the possibility and potential consequences of automated AI research. The debate will be hosted in London on July 1st. There are limited spaces available. Register your interest below

vv important debate coming up on 1st July about AI & the intelligence explosion, organised by the always excellent Jack Wiseman & Inference

Great lineup - looks like a fab event.

This will be fascinating. tylercowen, Tom Davidson, Connor Leahy and Mike Webb debating AI in London on 1 July. Register below.

In a conversation at MIT in 1953, Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the MIT AI Lab, said: "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!" To which Doug Engelbart replied: "You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for

A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train Claude falls under fair use, and is legal under U.S. copyright law.

I do have concerns about the impact of AI on labour markets but this seems like the wrong abstraction to care about. “Railway CEO claims 99% of work is done by engines and pistons.”

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Could Apple acquire Anthropic or would antitrust not allow it?

Great evening at the Inference debate on the potential for an intelligence explosion. Excellent contributions from tylercowen, Tom Davidson, Connor Leahy and Mike Webb. Bravo Jack Wiseman for organising and moderating!

We are now closer to the year 2100 than to 1950. Also closer to 2050 than to 2000. Time to start acting like it.

A nuclear regulator publishing “our assessment was not bananas” is like when a bank hosts an emergency press conference to say “our capital position is strong, liquidity is good, and deposits are secure” The only question is when insolvency is declared, not if

Drop the “safe”, just “superintelligence”, it’s cleaner.

I think the expectation of anti-tourism protests (Mexico City, Barcelona) mean land/Airbnbs do not offer the exposure that most AGI investors want. All sorts of other undesirable, idiosyncratic risk with land too This also depends on fairly extreme post-scarcity which 🤷‍♂️

"The big fish will get bigger, the small fish will get smaller, and Starmer and Macron have a limited amount of time in which to find their countries’ place in this precipitous new hierarchy."