Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Emily M. Bender is a computational linguist and AI ethics researcher known for critical work on large language models, particularly her influential arguments about their limitations and the dangers of anthropomorphization. She appears in these readings as a reviewer and intellectual contributor to conversations about AI hype, resource consumption, and the problematic framing of systems like those from OpenAI as conscious or superhuman. Her involvement signals the course's engagement with rigorous skepticism toward claims of AGI and transhuman intelligence, grounding the seminar's analysis in linguistic and technical realities rather than speculative futurism.

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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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Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of organizations aiming to build AGI and asserting that their products are close to achieving it (Bubeck, et al., 2023; Cuthbertson, 2022). While a number of researchers have debated whether…The AGI race fueled by the TESCREAList goal to build “transhuman minds” (Goertzel, 2010) and bring about “unlimited intelligence” has also resulted in systems that consume more and more resources in terms of data and compute power. This lea…For example, OpenAI’s leaders have described their tools as “slightly conscious” [112], and predict that “in the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice” [113]. Venkatasubramanian …

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