This extraordinary inaugural event will guide us all in leveraging human wisdom and values to guide the evolution of Artificial General Intelligence.
Join us in the vibrant heart of Panama City or virtually via a combination of metaverse and traditional video conferencing tools. Sign up for details!
Update: The event is now over, but you can watch the streams from both days on our YouTube channel at the link below, as well as other videos made in the run-up to, and following the event.
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Bringing together the leading voices in AI – joining together in action to catalyze the emergence of beneficial AGI.
speaker applications are now closed
CEO, SingularityNET Foundation & TrueAGI Inc.
Investor, Author & Co-founder, Discovery Institute
Executive Director, Humanity Plus
CEO, HyperCycle
Founder, 1000 Black Voices
CEO, Hanson Robotics
Chief AI Alchemist, SingularityNET
Vice Chair of Humanity+ & Director, The Millennium Project
COO, SingularityNET
Author of "Surviving AI" & "The Economic Singularity". Co-host of The London Futurist Podcast
Computational Linguist, SingularityNET
Foresight Advisor, SingularityNET
Psychology Professor, Manhattan College
Founder, Mossbridge Institute
Director of Communications, Biostasis Technologies
Chief AGI Officer, SingularityNET
CEO, Simuli
CTO, SingularityNET
Founder & Chair, Carboncopies Brain Research Foundation
Co-Founder and CEO, EARTHwise Ventures
CTO, Rejuve.AI
CEO, Millenium Project
Co-Founder, Neural Axis
Co-Founder & CEO, iCog Anyone Can Code
Jam Galaxy President and Co-Founder
Founder, Radical Ecosystems
Author & Futurist
Lecturer, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
CEO, Socratic Sciences; Professor, Icahn School of Medicine
Associate Provost, University of Massachusetts Boston
Prof Emeritus of Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies
Chief Actioneer, SingularityNET
AI & Blockchain Architect, SingularityNET
CMO, HyperCycle
Founder, World Systems Solutions Inc
Marketing Lead, SingularityNET
Decentralization Programme Lead, SingularityNET
AI Strategist, Liquid AI
Blockchain Development Lead, SingularityNET
Writer, Producer & Director
Lecturer, Stanford University
Social Media Consultant for the BGI Summit, Ting Global
Sociologist, Rutgers University
Prof. Future Studies, Seoul Media Institute of Technology
Author
Co-Founder, Women in AI
President, Photrek
CEO & Founder Rejuve Biotech
Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
CEO, J3d.ai (Jedi)
Associate Professor, University of Louisville
Principal & CEO at LeadDoAdapt (LDA) Ventures
Conference Chair, BGI-24
CEO, SingularityNET
Investor, Author & Co-founder, Discovery Institute
Founder of Cardano and Co-Founder of Ethereum & CEO, Input Output Global
Executive Director, Humanity Plus
Professor Emeritus, NYU
Founder, Second Life. Co-Founder, High Fidelity
Founder, 1000 Black Voices
CEO, HyperCycle
Co-Founder, Women in AI
Founder, Mossbridge Institute
CEO, Hanson Robotics
Vice Chair of Humanity+ & Director, The Millennium Project
Founder & Chair, Carboncopies Brain Research Foundation
Ethics Scientist & AI Philosopher
Author of "Surviving AI" & "The Economic Singularity". Co-host of The London Futurist Podcast
Associate Professor, University of Louisville
Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Founding Director, Center for the Future Mind
CEO, Socratic Sciences; Professor, Icahn School of Medicine
CEO, Millenium Project
Associate Provost, University of Massachusetts Boston
Director of Communications, Biostasis Technologies
Founder, World Systems Solutions Inc
Lecturer, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Founder, Radical Ecosystems
VP, World Systems Solutions Inc.
Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Groups in the UK for Digital Identity and Central Bank & Digital Currency and Founder of SARISA Labs
Co-Director, AI and Equality Initiative, Carnegie Council
Author & Futurist
Founder and CEO, Beneficial AI Research
Diplomat, U.S. Department of State
Philosopher, Author
Psychology Professor, Manhattan College
Welcome to Beneficial AGI Challenge – an innovative and inclusive community dedicated to exploring the positive impacts of artificial intelligence across various domains.
The BGI Challenge is the best way to start participating in the Beneficial AGI Summit — join a robust online community of AGI enthusiasts and get updates on the event, complete daily tasks that educate you, and get rewards based on your participation!
You can find out all about the BGI Challenge here.
BGI challenge page
Join us to be at the forefront of breaking news, exclusive company collaborations, enlightening keynote presentations, panel discussions, and innovative product unveilings, all orchestrated by the industry’s most influential figures.
full agendaOn the first two days of the BGI Summit, top thought leaders from around the globe will engage in comprehensive, detailed discussions of a wide range of questions regarding various approaches to AGI and their ethical, economic, psychological, political, environmental and other implications.
The focus will be on discussing issues, making conceptual progress, forming collaborations, and engaging in the practical actions aimed at catalyzing the emergence of beneficial AGI based on the ideas and connections set in motion by all involved.
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Understanding the differences between various potential AGI architectures? (LLM-based, brain simulation based, neural-symbolic or hybrid, etc.)
What are the changes in standards of benefit over time (beneficial now is not the same to what was beneficial in the past, nor in the future). What kind of benefit do we want AGI to work toward?
How should we think about the risks and benefits of recursive AGI self-improvement … versus the risks and benefits of AGIs that don’t self-improve?
What is the relevance of social, political, economic, and ownership structures to AGI – both before and after the achievement of full human-level AGI.
What are the risks versus benefits of early-stage AGI technology being open source? What are the risks versus benefits of it being implemented on a decentralized infrastructure like a blockchain?
Does who owns the initial human-level AGI and the nature of their business model make a major difference in the ultimate ethical orientation of that AGI?
What impact do the consciousness of the human creators of AGI, and/or of the human population in general, have on the nature of the AGI systems we create? Would self-aware AGI designers and devs create ethically better AGI systems?
Are there ways that early-stage AGI systems could be used to help advance the level of consciousness of human beings, thus perhaps creating a virtuous cycle btw better humans and better AGIs?
How might one organize an AGI development initiative to as to maximize the odds of it leading to beneficial AGI?
How can the drive to create beneficial AGI best be harmonized with the interests of corporations and the drive of nation-states to advance their own interests?
To what extent can AGIs with different architectures and bodies than humans truly embody or understand human ethics
What are the potential risks of “regulatory capture” of government AGI regulations by large corporations, similar to what has happened in the US financial and medical industries? How might these be avoided?
How can we best manage the mismatch between the slow pace of evolution of government regulations and industry standards, versus the fast pace of evolution of AI toward AGI?
What are the potential risks of “regulatory capture” of government AGI regulations by large corporations, similar to what has happened in the US financial and medical industries? How might these be avoided?
The Unconference is geared towards fostering in-depth, wide-ranging discussions. These sessions are participant-driven, which will allow attendees to bring forward their ideas and steer their discussions in parallel working sessions around a common theme. After the event, our goal is to spearhead practical initiatives that accelerate the development of beneficial AGI.
An initiative to collectively create a “Constitution and Governance Framework” to be proposed for voluntary adoption by individuals and organizations involved in open source AGI projects oriented toward participatory governance
Creating such environments that allow the interactive exploration of various future AGI-development scenarios – e.g. via role-playing in environments created by generative AI tools and governed by complex dynamical-system simulations
Participants around the globe contribute their brain-power and opinions to help direct the evolution of AI toward AGI, and perhaps also contribute their available data or compute resources to AI-oriented projects of their choice
A number of plausible scenarios for the future of AGI and humanity are sketched, and aspects of this scenario are then fleshed out collectively by individuals with different backgrounds and orientations.
Open and participatory global developer networks aggressively pursue human-level AGI and get there first
One particular tech company gets to human-level AGI first and rolls it out in a carefully controlled way, in coordination with the government of their host nation
Multiple tech companies in multiple major nations get to human-level AGI basically at the same time
The first human-level AGI is an “LLM++”, versus a hybrid neural-symbolic-evolutionary system, versus a detailed human brain simulation …
Human-level AGI is rolled out in a way that massively improves human life in the developed world, but not the developing world
Human-level AGI is rolled out in a way that provides roughly comparable benefit across global regions and socioeconomic strata
AGI development is successfully throttled by global regulation, but progress in most other advanced technologies (including narrow AI systems & LLMs and pursuing corporate and military aims) continues apace
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