Preparing for Advanced AI
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🍕 Snacks included
🖥️ Free virtual desk space to work/study with your friends (+hopefully this group's attendees!)
🤖 You'll learn to use Notebook LLM to automatically create slides, flashcards, Q&A and even a podcast episode out of readings (useful for studies & work) in one click. You might be able to get away with only 1h of prep for each session... 🫣
>>>Preparing for Advanced AI (AGI Strategy): <<<
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Curriculum curated by paid specialists at BlueDot Impact.
AI could be the most transformative technology we will witness in our generation. One of the more recent and qualitatively rigorous forecasts regarding the arrival of human-level AI (AGI~), suggests 2027 could be the one. How can we prepare for AI's transformative effects?
This fellowship lets you critically examine that forecast, and implications it suggests. The readings are structured around three mental models that replace months of scattered reading: incentive mapping to understand the race to AGI, kill chains to analyze threats, and defense-in-depth to design interventions. You'll leave able to hold your own in conversations with people already in the field.
People have often gone into highly impactful roles or founded new orgs after completing these kinds of fellowships. E.g. AI: Google DeepMind (Neel Nanda), Anthropic (Adam Jones)… And here in Geneva, Chiara is Exec. Director of Talos.
Curriculum:
AGI Strategy (link here)
Week topic (5 sessions)
Brief description
Week 1
Visualise a future to aspire towards, you’ll explore how AI is shaping that future, and you’ll analyse the dilemmas and coordination failures we must overcome to steer towards a better future.
Week 2
Technical trends of AI progress and what this implies for future AI capabilities
Week 3
Step-by-step story (”kill chain”) for how those capabilities could cause harm to humanity
Week 4
Framework to analyse what needs to be built to defend against your kill chain and steer AI towards safe and beneficial outcomes
Week 5
Generate your own action plan for how you'll start contributing to making AI go well
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For what it's worth, one of us organisers has founded an association and the other has been leading a research group. We've both hosted multiple workshops like this before!
Looking forward to meeting you 😊
Alexis and Max
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