Whole Brain Emulation Workshop
3 days of talks, workshops, food and drinks
Foresight
Overview
Location: Oxford, UK
Event type: Academic conference
Event Size: 35 guests
Held in a beautiful English abbey, experts from all over the world enjoyed 3 days discussing whole brain emulation. WBE is a potential technology to generate software intelligence that is human-aligned simply by being based directly on human brains. Generally past discussions have assumed a fairly long timeline to WBE, while past AGI timelines had broad uncertainty. There were also concerns that the neuroscience of WBE might boost AGI capability development without helping safety, although no consensus did develop. Recently many people have updated their AGI timelines towards earlier development, raising safety concerns. That has led some people to consider whether WBE development could be significantly speeded up, producing a differential technology development re-ordering of technology arrival that might lessen the risk of unaligned AGI by the presence of aligned software intelligence.
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