Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Shane Legg is a co-founder of DeepMind (2010), one of the most influential organizations pursuing artificial general intelligence and machine learning research. The course readings invoke him primarily as a figure central to the institutional and financial apparatus driving AGI development, particularly in relation to how DeepMind's framing of "solving intelligence" shapes contemporary discourse around what general intelligence means and why it matters. His appearance here marks the intersection of theoretical AGI philosophy with the venture-capital-backed corporate structures that have come to dominate the field.

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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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Contributors to Pennachin and Goertzel (2007b) outlined a number of potential reasons for the dearth of AGI research, one of them being that “a great number of researchers reject the validity or importance of ‘general intelligence.’ For man…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…

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