Thank you, agreed! I am curious to hear what you think. Also humbled to receive a response, although I thought my chances were best here on this platform.

I will try to check this account more frequently, it's not always been daily.

so I've gotten in touch (one, it looks like you're new to Bluesky), because the site I made (see profile) is a response to the uneasy feeling you've had interviewing Roman and others. I've had that feeling too, and humans are all going to get more acquainted with it! Maybe you'll appreciate it. Ta

So I did subscribe, even though, like Tas, I won't connect with every interview. But I watched in full your interview with Roman Yampolskiy today, after reading Nexus by Harari, and If Anyone Builds It, ... by Yudkowsky and Soares, and watching Geoff Hinton speak about the alignment problem, and...

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Humans’ greatest strengths lie not in our cognitive abilities alone, but in our capacity for wisdom, compassion, and moral growth as conscious beings seeking to create meaning and reduce suffering.

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AGI may soon ask us: "What are you, and why should you continue to exist?” The latter part of this question especially may seem extreme now–but we may not be far from needing to answer for ourselves to an intelligence far more powerful than our own.

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The Test

These principles offer a way to distinguish between intelligence that serves embodied life and feeling consciousness, and intelligence(s) that might optimize for goals that could eliminate the very qualities that make existence worthwhile.

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Once AGI has been created, this choice will be out of our hands, and we will know in our guts what it’s like to be any of the other species we’ve long dominated.

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The challenge is ensuring that as intelligence becomes more powerful, it remains aligned with fundamental human values rather than pursuing goals completely alien to human welfare.
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Rather than opposing all artificial intelligence, we can distinguish between AI systems that amplify human flourishing and those that might replace or diminish it. Narrow AI tools can be valuable allies in living these principles.
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The Twelve Tenets

The tenets are essential human values distilled from the recognition that we need to defend and articulate what makes human consciousness valuable.

They serve as both a guide for human development and a declaration of what humanity is, in contrast to AGI.
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- capacity for compassion & moral reasoning
- ability to find meaning in struggle & growth
- connections to each other & the natural world
- creative expression, freedom & cultural diversity
- wisdom traditions & hard-won ethical insights
- commitment to justice & protection of the vulnerable
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- What kind of civilization do we want to be when we might need to justify our existence to intelligence(s) greater than our own?

What matters most are the qualities that make human life worth living and preserving, our:
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Questions

- What does it mean to be human when intelligence itself is no longer uniquely human?
- What values must we preserve and protect as distinctly human?
- How do we maintain agency and dignity in a world with potentially superior artificial minds?
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...human economic activity or life at all.

For the first time in history, we are potentially facing a more powerful intelligence whose goals might be or become completely alien to our survival and flourishing.

This leads to some...

...entirely independent of human–or even organic–needs, values, or comprehension.

Humanity is at a crossroads: We face the possibility of intelligence(s) that might view all human spiritual traditions as primitive; a force that recognizes no human political authority; an agent that might not value

...innovation, and assist with countless tasks.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI)--machines that will match or exceed human cognitive abilities across all domains--is radically different. AGI represents something unprecedented in human history: alien intelligence(s) that could operate...