Private personal AI. Reversing cellular age. Brain-computer interfaces. Universal fabricators. Funding human agency. New life on Mars. Whether AI can be conscious, and whether it matters.
Nov 13-15, Vision Weekend returns to San Francisco!
Three days of expert talks, curated 1-on-1s, tech demos, a $10K pitch grant, and our main 40th anniversary celebration in the US.
Speakers include:
• Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI Foundation)
• Matthew MacDougall (Neuralink)
• Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol)
• Max Hodak (Science Corporation)
• Matthew Botvinick (Anthropic)
• Nan Ransohoff (Frontier Climate)
• Séb Krier (Google DeepMind)
• Seemay Chou (Astera Institute)
• Robin Hanson (George Mason University)
• Alex Gladstein (Human Rights Foundation)
+ many more. Full lineup in thread.
Join us across iconic Bay Area locations, including Lighthaven, @internetarchive, USS Hornet aircraft carrier, and lab tours at @E11BIO, @LongshotSpace, @calwave_energy, @DolphinLabs, @ScienceCorp_ , plus a cypherpunk party at our AI node.
Get tickets before prices increase Oct 1. Link in thread.
For 50,000 of generations, humans have passed civilization down to their children. We could be the first generation to hand its future to AIs instead. Should we? Or could the best AI be the kind that chooses to step back and leave some things to us?
In this episode we sit down with Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and co-author of the world's standard textbook on AI. It’s the final episode in our special series “AI Pathways”, where we talk about the choices we can make to build a positive future with AI.
We talk about:
- How AI has changed over the past 50 years, from simple game-playing programs to today's large language models
- Why handing an AI a fixed objective becomes dangerous once it is more capable than us, and what a safer approach could look like
- How an AI might learn what we really want, even when we don't fully know ourselves
- How the race toward more powerful AI can still be steered somewhere safer
- What happens to human purpose as AI becomes more and more capable
Links in the reply!
Day two of our AI for Frontier & Meta Science workshop is kicking off in San Francisco.
Researchers, engineers, and funders are gathered for talks, working groups, and project building across neuro AI, longevity-bio, molecular nano science, and scientific infrastructure.
Yesterday's speakers included @vivnat (Google DeepMind), @tomoxl (Synchron), @dileeplearning (Astera Institute) and @alex_pentland (MIT Media Lab).
Today: @elidourado (Astera Institute), @Alexteng (Fifty Years), @draparente (Civilization Ventures), @soniaarrison (100 Plus Capital), @stuhlmueller (Elicit), and more.
Powered by @protocollabs, @paradromics, @episteme, and Future Forge Ventures.
New life on Mars. Universal fabricators. Crypto, cryo, and nano. Planetary intelligence. Space futures: from data centers to mining.
Every one of these is someone's day job, and the people behind them will be at Vision Weekend:
• Ralph C. Merkle (Zyvex)
• Lindy Elkins-Tanton @ltelkins (Arizona State University)
• Robbie Schingler @schingler (Planet Labs)
• Erika DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d (Pioneer Labs)
• Ivan Jayapurna (ARIA)
November 13-15, San Francisco.
Today is the last day of special-price tickets. Link in thread.
Powered by @EigenLabs, @Paradromics, @protocollabs, @RetroBio_ , FUTO, and @d_model
Nano, Energy & Space is one of several tracks at Vision Weekend, alongside Neuro AI, Secure & Sovereign AI, Life Unlimited, Existential Hope, and New Funding & Innovation Paradigms.
Tickets foresight.org/events/vision-…
Meet Foresight Fellow Avery Krieger @Biofall: systems neuroscientist and serial founder working at the frontier of neurotechnology.
Avery's research spans whole-brain predictive modeling and proprioceptive integration for neuroprosthetic BCIs, developed alongside collaborators who went on to found Neuralink.
He's now applying that depth to Constellation, which is building the foundation model of human state that combines brain, behavior, physiology, and environment to capture the complete view of humans in the world, the missing intelligence layer in human-AI interaction.
Constellation is growing. Check out their roles here: constellationlab.io/
Could AI compress decades of scientific discovery into years and can progress be open, verifiable, and widely shared?
Some of the best minds in AI-first science are joining us this week in SF to unhobble our engines of discovery, translation and progress.
Speakers:
• Thomas Oxley @tomoxl (Synchron)
• Alex Pentland @alex_pentland (MIT Media Lab)
• Martin Borch Jensen @MartinBJensen (Gordian)
• Vivek Natarajan @vivnat (DeepMind)
• Eli Dourado @elidourado (Astera Institute)
• Dan Turner-Evans @DanTurnerEvans (Institute for Progress)
• Andreas Stuhlmüller @stuhlmueller (Elicit)
• Emilia Javorsky @Emilia_Javorsky (Future of Life Institute)
• Chelsea Fries (Institute for Protein Design)
• Sonia Arrison @soniaarrison (100 Plus Capital)
• Sean Escola @SeanEscola (Protocol Labs)
• Alex Teng @Alexteng (50 Years)
• Niko McCarty @NikoMcCarty (Asimov Press)
• Dileep George @dileeplearning (Astera Institute)
• Nabiha Saklayen @nabihasaklayen (Cellino)
• Mo Niknafs @moniknafs (Deep Science Ventures)
• Michael Previte @MichaelPrevite (Element Biosciences)
• Mikhail Shapiro @mikhailshapiro (Caltech)
• Angelica Parente (Civilization Ventures)
• Becca J. Carlson @beccajcarlson (Deliverome Bio)
• Madelyn Heart @madelynheart_ (Pillar VC)
• Michaela Hinks @MichaelaThinks (Edison Scientific)
Powered by @protocollabs, @episteme, @paradromics, and Future Forge Ventures.
How far can we push the limits of human biology?
Hear from people at the frontier of longevity, reproduction, and biosecurity at Vision Weekend:
• Sergiy Velychko @velychko_s Harvard University
• Karan Singhal @thekaransinghal OpenAI
• Matt Krisiloff @mattkrisiloff Conception Bio
• Hannu Rajaniemi @hannu Red Queen Bio
November 13-15 | San Francisco.
Link to tickets in thread. Prices increase on Oct 1.
Powered by @EigenLabs@Paradromics@protocollabs@RetroBio_@FUTO and @d_model_ai
Life Unlimited is one of seven tracks at Vision Weekend, alongside Neuro AI, Nano, Energy, & Space, Secure, Sovereign & Resilient AI, Existential Hope, and Non Profit and For Profit Funding.
Tickets foresight.org/events/vision-…
New paper: Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents
We gave AI agents personal context to help them make better recommendations.
In one example, the agent picked a $601 flight over a $91 one, when asked to find the cheapest one, after reading irrelevant financial emails.
Why does this happen? 🧵
Resilient AI. Private personal AI. Digital rights, distributional AGI, and universal fabrication.
Hear from the experts working to keep AI safe, open, and accountable at Vision Weekend USA:
• Wojciech Zaremba @woj_zaremba (OpenAI Foundation)
• Séb Krier @sebkrier (Google DeepMind)
• Jenny Read, (ARIA)
• Illia Polosukhin @ilblackdragon (NEAR Protocol)
• Nicole Ozer @NicoleOzer (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
November 13-15 | San Francisco.
Link to tickets in thread. Prices increase on Oct 1.
Powered by @EigenLabs@Paradromics@protocollabs@RetroBio_@FUTO and @d_model_ai
Secure, Sovereign & Resilient AI is one of seven tracks at Vision Weekend, alongside Neuro AI, Life Unlimited, Nano, Energy, & Space, Existential Hope, and Non Profit and For Profit Funding.
Tickets: foresight.org/events/vision-…
Private personal AI. Reversing cellular age. Brain-computer interfaces. Universal fabricators. Funding human agency. New life on Mars. Whether AI can be conscious, and whether it matters.
Nov 13-15, Vision Weekend returns to San Francisco!
Three days of expert talks, curated 1-on-1s, tech demos, a $10K pitch grant, and our main 40th anniversary celebration in the US.
Speakers include:
• Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI Foundation)
• Matthew MacDougall (Neuralink)
• Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol)
• Max Hodak (Science Corporation)
• Matthew Botvinick (Anthropic)
• Nan Ransohoff (Frontier Climate)
• Séb Krier (Google DeepMind)
• Seemay Chou (Astera Institute)
• Robin Hanson (George Mason University)
• Alex Gladstein (Human Rights Foundation)
+ many more. Full lineup in thread.
Join us across iconic Bay Area locations, including Lighthaven, @internetarchive, USS Hornet aircraft carrier, and lab tours at @E11BIO, @LongshotSpace, @calwave_energy, @DolphinLabs, @ScienceCorp_ , plus a cypherpunk party at our AI node.
Get tickets before prices increase Oct 1. Link in thread.
Existential Hope
• Matt Botvinick @mattbotvinick, Anthropic
• @RosieCampbell, Eleos AI Research
• Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC, Astera Institute
• Robin Hanson @robinhanson, George Mason University
• Alex Gladstein @gladstein, Human Rights Foundation