AI Crash Course - Further Details

Main Topics by Date

Because you asked… Here are some details on the AI Crash Course that starts this Saturday (for paid subscribers)…

New forms of being and meaning

Saturday January 11th, 12 noon - 2pm (eastern)

• AI as a new type of agency

  • A room with two people in it is not the same as a room with two people in it and a gun on the table. What kind of agency does the gun have?

• AI as a new type of identity

  • Humans as inforgs and interfaces

• AI as a new type of power asymmetry

  • Controlled chaos

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What it is and what it isn’t

Tuesday, January 14th, 2pm - 4pm (eastern)

• Neural networks and machine “learning”

  • Error backpropagation

• Black Box Theory vs Science

  • AI doesn’t solve problems in science, it circumvents them

• Mechanistic interpretation, prediction and explanatory models

  • Subject AI to the scientific method

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Ethics, governance & human dignity

Thursday, January 16th, 4pm - 6pm (eastern)

• Geopolitics & AI Dominance

• Homo: Faber, Sapiens, Ludens, Poieticus & Proximus

• Stealth Democracies

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Geopolitics & AI Dominance

Saturday, January 18th, 12 noon - 2pm (eastern)

• Politics, Security & Human Values

• Prosperity & Planetary Control

• Strategy & AI Dominance

Language, Weaponized

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2pm -4pm (eastern)

• Evil outcomes without evil intentions

• Genesis, Genesis, Genesis

Hope to see you in class. Use the link below to join any session (paid subscribers only)