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I am writing this at a turning point in my life, a moment of great distress, pain and anguish. In the hope of clearing up a dark chapter of US history, the personal emails of the notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein were opened to the public. We did not get much more clarity so far, but anyone ever exchanging private emails with Epstein entered the spotlight, including myself. While my friends and coworkers understand the context of these messages, many people in the general public do not, and I find myself attacked by strangers, even subjected to death threats, and many people who take an interest on my work on the philosophy of cognition, consciousness and artificial intelligence feel taken aback, shocked and distressed. How I met Jeffrey Epstein As many people know, during the years of 2013 to 2017, a part of my work at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics was funded by Jeffrey Epstein. I met him through several well-known scientists from the fields o

Joscha Bach Are you interested in exploring the world through the perspective of AI? The age of AGE: Artificial General Experience Rana Gujral: The AI Instinct — The Future of AI and Human Decision-Making The unexpected revolution In 1943, Thomas J. Watson, the chairman and president of IBM, famously predicted that the world market might not need more than five computers. In 1977, Ken Olson, founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), maintained: “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” Six years later, I had convinced my grandparents to buy…

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