developing a pipeline of talent to fight rogue AI, building a scaffolding of think tanks, YouTube channels, prize competitions, grants, research funding and scholarships — as well as a new fellowship that can pay student leaders as much as …119. Kurzweil, 2005; Goertzel, 2010, p. 227; Bostrom, 2009a; Shin, 2023. Benjamin Hilton, “Preventing an AI-related catastrophe,” at https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intelligence/, accessed 31 January 2024. See also Scott …The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres.
First Monday, volume 29, number 4 (April 2024).
doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i4.13636.
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Daniel Jacobi
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Based on the excerpts provided, Daniel Jacobi appears primarily as a passing reference in the context of AI safety infrastructure and talent development pipelines. The first excerpt suggests he's involved in building institutional scaffolding—think tanks, fellowships, funding mechanisms—to channel researchers toward AI risk mitigation work, which positions him within the "earning to give" and longtermist ecosystem that Gebru and Torres critique in their TESCREAL analysis. He functions in the readings as an example of how AI safety concerns are operationalized through career incentives and institutional patronage rather than as a direct intellectual contributor to the course's core debates about AI, cybernetics, and society.
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