If you wanted to make a superintelligence that was aligned with the thriving of all life in perpetuity, the group that was building it would have to have the goal of the thriving of all life in perpetuity—which is not the interest of one nation-state relative to others, and it’s not the interest of near-term market dynamics, or election dynamics, or quarterly profits, or finite-set metrics.

Artificial Intelligence and the Superorganism (2023)

Portrait of Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel Schmachtenberger

Social Philosopher and Systems Thinker

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.

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