We alternately dread\, worship and dismiss the arrival of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Yet the real superintel ligences already surround us: religions\, corporations\, markets and democr acies. This talk will welcome us to imagine not how we can build ASI that d efeats us in all things\, but instead how we can\, together with our enviro nment and machines\, become a collectively self-aware global superintellige nce.
Using economic theory as a translational formalism\, E. Glen Wey l will illustrate how we can build core sociological ideas like community i nto algorithmic design and transform focal technical structures like neural networks into the design of social institutions. By transcending the misle ading divide between social and technical systems\, such joint engineering suggests a path away from both fear of ASI domination and its disappointing real-world performance.
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