Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Gottfredson is a psychologist known for promoting scientific racism through IQ research, particularly claims that Black people have inherently lower intelligence and are therefore unemployable. She appears in the course readings as a cautionary figure—her editorial on intelligence and race was controversially cited in a 2023 Microsoft AGI paper before being removed, illustrating how pseudoscientific claims about cognitive hierarchy can infiltrate AI research and policy discussions that claim to be objective. Her work functions as a warning about how deterministic theories of intelligence, when embedded in AGI discourse, risk naturalizing discrimination and obscuring the social construction of both "intelligence" and "general" artificial intelligence itself.

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Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

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

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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…

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