Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

In this course

Gottfredson is a psychometrician whose 1994 editorial promoting racial pseudoscience—claiming Black populations have inherently lower IQ—appears in course readings as a cautionary example of how eugenic logic can infiltrate discussions of AI capability and general intelligence. The readings use Gottfredson's work to demonstrate how scientific racism has contaminated AGI discourse, particularly in arguments about which populations are "employable" or fit for technological futures, making her presence in the course essential for critically examining the hidden ideologies shaping AI research and governance.

Mentioned in 1 reading

Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

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

4

Pennachin and Goertzel (2007b) wrote that “what distinguishes AGI work from run-of-the-mill artificial intelligence” research is that “it is explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence in the short term,” even though they note th…The editorial, also cited (then removed) in a 2023 Microsoft preprint pertaining to AGI (Bubeck, et al., 2023), was written by Gottfredson, who argued numerous times that most Black people are not employable as their IQ averages around 70 a…59. Eliezer Yudkowsky Twitter post, archived on 13 February 2023, at https://web.archive.org/web/20230213224423/https://twitter.com/esyudkowsky/status/1131208777032560640, accessed 1 February 2024. 60. Bio in Marc Andreessen’s Twitter biog…

+1 more

Appears alongside

People mentioned in the same passages — sorted by co-occurrence weight.