Ben Goertzel
Researcher who popularised the term “artificial general intelligence”
A researcher and entrepreneur who, with Shane Legg and others, put “artificial general intelligence” into circulation in the early 2000s through a book of that title, after Mark Gubrud’s earlier use in 1997.
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AGI Timeline: What CEOs Need to Know
Boston Consulting Group briefing on how corporate leaders should think about when artificial general intelligence might arrive and what to do about it. Described from the title — the publisher's page would not let our reader in.
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From AGI to ASI (Google DeepMind)
A Google DeepMind report on how AI might keep developing after human-level AGI, focusing on the transition to artificial general superintelligence and grounding it in the theory of Universal AI.
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The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General Intelligence
Open-access paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres (First Monday, April 2024) arguing that the drive to build AGI is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition, and urging researchers to work on defined tasks that can be tested for safety.
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