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 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…Nick Bostrom, 2002. “Existential risks: Analyzing human extinction scenarios and related hazards,” Journal of Evolution and Technology, volume 9, at http://jetpress.org/volume9/risks.html, accessed 10 March 2024.
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Sebastien Bubeck
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Bubeck is a researcher at Microsoft whose work on artificial general intelligence (AGI) capabilities and claims has become a focal point for examining how contemporary AI labs present their progress narratives. The course readings cite Bubeck et al. (2023) to track how arguments about AGI emergence circulate in industry literature and academic preprints, and also to trace the uncomfortable historical baggage—including discredited scientific racism—that can lurk in the sources cited by these technical papers. His work thus serves as a concrete example of how AI discourse intersects with broader institutional and epistemological problems in knowledge production.
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