Tethics & Chill [NYC Breakfast]: Alignment & Collective Intelligence with Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney, Anthropic)

​There are people who think tech problems are solved with tech solutions. And then there are people who bring the full weight of human creativity, history, philosophy, and collective intelligence to solving the most intractable problems in technology.

​If the latter is your jam, join us for a special session with Ivan Vendrov (formerly Midjourney, Anthropic, Google) to discuss and share feedback on a new vision of an Applied Organic Alignment Lab. Consider: if AI is a new alien form of life then how do we integrate it into our society and biosphere? How do we prevent a bureaucratic AI State-God? How do we think beyond personal assistants, AI overlords, and bots to something more compelling and prosocial? What institutional structures can help us in solving these challenges? Can AI give rise to a wholesome intelligent social fabric?

​Does exploring these questions sound like how you'd like to start your Monday? Join us for breakfast. ​We'll get started by 9:15am and have a chance to mingle with friends after hearing from Ivan.

​Ivan Vendrov was most recently an AI researcher working on collective intelligence at Midjourney, building AI tools to help people understand each other and cooperate voluntarily at scale. He previously worked at Google and Anthropic and co-founded Omni, an ML company seeking to augment human intelligence by bringing knowledge directly to thought. He is obsessed with understanding, publicizing, and improving the social and cultural impacts of AI technologies, maintaining a special interest in recommender systems & social media.