Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, a pivotal figure in the contemporary AI industry whose leadership embodies the intersection of transhumanist ideology and commercial AGI development. In the course readings, he appears as a representative of the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies—techno-utopianism, singularitarianism, and related tech-industry transhumanism—whose institutional power through OpenAI concretizes these philosophical commitments into material infrastructure. The readings examine him as emblematic of how Silicon Valley billionaires and entrepreneurs translate ideological conviction about AGI's inevitability into billion-dollar research agendas that shape global AI policy and deployment.

Background

Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.

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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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There is also significant overlap in their contemporary communities, with many community members falling into multiple TESCREAL categories. Bostrom, for example, is a leading transhumanist who participated in the Extropian movement, anticip…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…In 2015, Musk, Thiel, Altman and others founded the non-profit OpenAI, and collectively pledged US$1B to the project (Novet, 2015). The mission of OpenAI is to “ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — by which we mean highly aut…

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