Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Moskovitz is a co-founder of OpenAI and a major funder within the AI safety and rationalist movements, making him a key figure in the tech industry's embrace of TESCREAL ideologies and AGI-focused research organizations. The course readings cite him as emblematic of how billionaires have shaped the institutional and ideological landscape of contemporary AI development, particularly through funding and leadership roles in organizations like OpenAI that emerged from rationalist commitments to artificial general intelligence. His presence in the materials anchors broader arguments about how Silicon Valley's techno-utopian visions and ideology-driven philanthropy have concentrated power over AI's trajectory within a small network of ideologically aligned actors.

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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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Influence and variants. The TESCREAL bundle of ideologies has become enormously influential, especially within certain powerful corners of the tech industry. Current and former billionaires who subscribe to, or are associated with, one or m…The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | our current understanding and imagination” (Goertzel, 2010). | | | Rationalism | An ideology that…By 2007, when Pennachin and Goertzel co-authored and co-edited the first book on AGI, few organizations specified building AGI as their goal (Pennachin and Goertzel, 2007a). Six years earlier, in 2001, Goertzel co-founded the Artificial Gen…

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