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Extraction Summary
9
People
5
Organizations
3
Locations
5
Events
3
Relationships
4
Quotes
Document Information
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Narrative profile / article draft (congressional oversight production)
File Size:
1.3 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page from a narrative or report (stamped by House Oversight) profiling physicist Max Tegmark. It details his founding of the Future of Life Institute (FLI) with Jaan Tallinn, lists high-profile scientific advisory board members like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom, and discusses FLI's conferences in Puerto Rico and Asilomar regarding Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) safety.
People (9)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Max Tegmark | Theoretical Physicist / Cosmologist / Co-founder FLI |
Subject of the text; concerned with existential risk of AGI.
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| Alan Guth | Physicist (MIT) |
Introduced the narrator to Max Tegmark; described as 'father of the inflationary universe'.
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| Jaan Tallinn | Co-founder |
Co-founded the Future of Life Institute with Max Tegmark.
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| Elon Musk | Board Member |
Member of FLI's scientific advisory board.
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| Frank Wilczek | Board Member |
Member of FLI's scientific advisory board; shares optimistic view on AGI with Tegmark.
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| George Church | Board Member |
Member of FLI's scientific advisory board.
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| Stuart Russell | Board Member |
Member of FLI's scientific advisory board.
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| Nick Bostrom | Board Member / Philosopher |
Oxford philosopher on FLI advisory board; created the 'paper clip' thought experiment.
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| Narrator (Unidentified) | Author |
Refers to themselves as 'I'; acquainted with scientific community members.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| MIT |
Institution associated with Alan Guth and Max Tegmark.
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| Future of Life Institute (FLI) |
Organization co-founded by Tegmark focusing on beneficial technology.
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| London Science Museum |
Museum visited by Tegmark during a book tour.
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| Oxford |
University associated with Nick Bostrom.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the footer stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (5 events)
2018
FLI instituted a grants competition focusing on research for AGI benefits.
Unknown
Future of Life Institute
Four years ago (relative to writing)
Some years ago
Locations (3)
| Location | Context |
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Location of Tegmark's book tour and visit to Science Museum.
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Location of a 2015 conference on AI safety.
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Location of a 2017 conference on AI safety.
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Relationships (3)
referred to as 'his MIT colleague Alan Guth'
Max co-founded, with Jaan Tallinn and others, the Future of Life Institute
he believes, like Frank Wilczek, in a future that will immensely benefit from AGI
Key Quotes (4)
"Max’s principal concern nowadays is the looming existential risk posed by the creation of an AGI"Source
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Quote #1
"an outreach organization working to ensure that tomorrow’s most powerful technologies are beneficial for humanity."Source
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Quote #2
"Was all that impressive progress in vain?"Source
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Quote #3
"world full of paper clips and nothing else, produced by an (apparently) well-meaning AGI who was just following orders."Source
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Quote #4
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