<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span>Call for Research Proposals in Machine Consciousness </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span>After some months of incubation, the California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC) is now ready to onboard researchers exploring the fundamental nature of the mind through computational approaches. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span>We've been quietly building the foundations, now we're opening the doors of the institute to our first cohort of scientists!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><<a href="https://cimc.ai/#/" target="_blank">https://cimc.ai/#/</a>></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Quote:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Consciousness is crucial for ethical AI, yet it remains largely unexplored.<br><br>Understanding
 the mind is the most important project in the history of philosophy. 
The development of powerful, generally intelligent agents—driven by 
economic, cultural, and military incentives—appears inevitable. 
Attempting to control highly advanced agentic systems far more powerful 
than ourselves is unlikely to succeed. Our only viable path may be to 
create AIs that are conscious, enabling them to understand and share 
common ground with us.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">-------------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">BillK</div></div>
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