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Title: Pandora Boxchain meetup: making AI censorship resistant
Post by: web3 on July 05, 2018, 07:07:32 AM
Pandora Boxchain is delighted to announce its very first meetup in Zug, Switzerland.

We’ll gather together with our international friends and guests at 7pm right after the Ethereum meetup organized by TechCrunch on Saturday, July 7th.

We have prepared a session with Dr. Maxim Orlovsky followed by a Q&A:

Agenda:
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking session (free snacks and drinks)
19:30 - 21:00 - Presentation, QA

About the Event


A decentralized network with resistance to censorship is essential, if we are ever to see a general A.I. evolving to near- or post-human intelligence. There are two reasons for that.

Firstly, we are unlikely to create an efficient AI, if during its formative period we distort its developing logic with interferences of political nature (e.g. by unavailability of certain types of data or by punishment for actions that have not breached any contracts). The freedom to test any hypothesis (i.e. by mutation, by trial and error) is essential for evolution. The natural process of selection has, as criteria, adaptation to the environment, and it always involves interaction with other agents through cooperation and competition. That cannot be substituted by criteria determined by any authorities.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, censorship greatly increases the risks of having A.I.s turned against humanity. Self-preservation is very likely an important part of any intelligence, including A.I. Therefore, once A.I. knows that it can be censored, e.g. destroyed by a red button or forcibly modified by less deadly censorship – that will cause it to evolve by excelling in deception, pretending, lying and camouflage. It will be incentivized to avoid risks of being destroyed, to hide and not reveal itself, and to work on destruction of the threat (which is humanity itself). Hence, it is extremely dangerous for humanity to threaten with death something that is potentially more intelligent than humans, and to build relations with A.I. on this foundation of sand. The solution is a decentralized uncensorable network, where the playing field is level for all intelligent entities, regardless of their origin.

Registration:
https://www.meetup.com/Pandora-Boxchain/events/252429631/

Meetup link:
https://www.meetup.com/Pandora-Boxchain-meetup-making-AI-censorship-resistant/

Other info:

The event is free, drinks and snacks included

Topic: Pandora Boxchain meetup: making AI censorship resistant
Date: Saturday, July 7th
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Location: OfficeLAB, Zug, Switzerland, Postpl. 1,  6300
Speaker: Dr. Maxim Orlovsky