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This essay is part of The Launch Sequence, a collection of concrete, ambitious ideas to accelerate AI for science and security. Frontier AI systems are neural networks that learn from a type of feedback called “reward signals” to interact better with humans. Yet no scientist on Earth has a wiring diagram of the biological reward circuits that shape mammal brains to be (mostly) cooperative and resilient to stress. Until recently, creating a full brain wiring diagram with labeled cells and synapses, called a “connectome,” for an animal like a mouse was theoretically a multi-billion-dollar, decade-long project. Today, new microscopes and data processing technology are pushing the price to tens of millions per brain, and compressing the duration of one of these mapping projects to potentially fit within a single congressional term. We propose the Comparative Brain Connectome Initiative (CBCI): a NSF-supported Focused Research Organization that will execute a five-year, $150 million nationa

Download PDF Content Summary Motivation Solution Further resources This essay is part of The Launch Sequence , a collection of concrete, ambitious ideas to prepare the world for advanced AI. These projects need people to build them. Get in touch . Summary Frontier AI systems are neural networks that learn from a type of feedback called “reward signals” to interact better with humans. Yet no scientist on Earth has a wiring diagram of the biological reward circuits that shape mammal brains to be (mostly) cooperative and resilient to stress. Until recently, creating a full brain wiring diagram wi

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