Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Pennachin, alongside Ben Goertzel, is a key theorist of artificial general intelligence (AGI) who distinguishes AGI research from mainstream AI work by emphasizing the explicit goal of engineering general intelligence in the near term rather than narrow, task-specific systems. His definition work appears in the readings to ground the course's examination of how AGI-as-goal has become central to contemporary AI ideology and the "TESCREAL bundle" of transhumanist and rationalist thought that now animates the AI race. This framing is essential for understanding how AGI functions not merely as a technical objective but as a cultural and ideological force shaping the field's direction and values.

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Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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1. Introduction Recent years have seen a resurgence of the goal to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system defined differently by the various people and organizations that seek to build it. For instance, OpenAI defines AGI as …These ideologies, which are direct descendants of first-wave eugenics, emerged in roughly this order, and many were shaped or founded by the same individuals. We show how the TESCREAL bundle has come to animate the AGI race by examining how…In 1955, four white men officially launched the field of AI with a proposal for a workshop focused on “the artificial intelligence problem” [65]. By the 1990s, however, many researchers in fields currently associated with AI, such as natura…

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