[ExI] Organization to 'Speed Up" Creation of AGI?

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2011-12-18 07:51, Kevin G Haskell wrote:
> There are few organizations in the H+/AGI 'aware' communities that are
> dedicated to the idea of slowing down the creation of the AGI species,
> and Singularity, for the purposes of being "cautious" so that mankind
> isn't destroyed, or in some other way harmed, by the new species that we
> create.

I think that is a bit of misrepresentation. I can only speak for us at 
FHI, but we would be fine with faster AGI development if we thought safe 
AGI was very likely or we were confident that it would be developed 
before AGI went critical. An early singularity reduces existential risk 
from everything that could happen while waiting for it. It also benefits 
existing people if it is a positive one.


> Does anyone know of any presently existing private organizations that
> are dedicated to the idea of 'speeding' up the development of AGI and of
> achieving the Singularity as soon as possible?

Every single AGI company? OK, there aren't *that* many of them.


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University