What sort of post-superintelligence society should we aim for?

The case for ‘viatopia’: a state of society that is on track for a near-best future, whatever that might look like.

Many of the biggest companies in the world are racing to build superintelligence — artificial intelligence that far exceeds the capability of the best humans across all domains. This will not merely be one more invention. The magnitude of the transformation will be beyond that of the printing press, or the steam engine, or electricity; more on a par with the evolution of Homo sapiens, or of life itself. Yet almost no one has articulated a positive vision for what comes after superintelligence. Few people are even asking, “What if we succeed?” Even fewer have tried to answer.1 The speed and…

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• Yixiong Hao
• Lydia Nottingham
• Jirat C
• Jason Hausenloy
• Jaeho Lee
• Saheb Gulati
• Will Anderson

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