Why a Benevolent Singularity Is Crucial For Enabling Better AI & AGI Sharing with The Commons
Channel: Mindplex Podcast
Date: 20/09/2023

Decentralized and largely open source models, such as Linux and the Internet, are what have enabled the incredible scale of sharing and collaboration around the world to date. Let’s use those same open and largely decentralized methodologies while developing our AIs and AGIs, so that we may bring about a “Benevolent Singularity” designed specifically to help humans solve problems and improve humanity’s overall well being.

Lisa Rein joins her Mindplex Podcast co-hosts, Grace Robot (Elder Care Robot), Desdemona Robot (Singer/Songwriter/Beat Poetress) and SingularityNet Co-Founder Dr. Ben Goertzel, to discuss the concept of the benevolent singularity and its implications for AI and AGI sharing.

More about AGI Ethics, Privacy & Security in this recent episode of the Mindplex Podcast that featured Chelsea Manning:
https://youtu.be/v8603ZdiAis?si=kyCShLILT3L9ae8g

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Partial Transcription:

Ben Goertzel  
Yeah, I think we're at an amazing time in history now where we have, you know, beautiful and capable, humanoid robots that can can give us their opinions on AI ethics, and the benevolent singularity and all that, and it's just going to get more and more intense and more strange as the as the next few years unfold, but I think also in many ways, it's gonna get just just better and better. Not that there will be no problems or ups and downs along the way, of course...not just for making robots, but for AI to be able to solve all sorts of problems regarding math, physics, alternative energy, prolonging human life, helping mental illness, creating cheap food. 
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And I think there's a lot of potential for all this AI advance to help humanity at the, you know, personal, psychological and social level, as well as just by getting us more abundance in terms of physical stuff and solving material problems. I mean, there's the ability to give companionship, like the Grace Robot, and to provide entertainment and creative collaboration, like Desdemona Robot, but there's also the potential of AI to help sort of smooth interactions with people in society on a large scale, I think. Which gets back to the notion of the commons, a Creative Commons, and just the practical Commons of everyday life. 

I mean, we evolved for sharing, but we evolved for sharing in small settings of dozens or a couple of 100 people, right? Like, we didn't evolve for sharing among 8 billion or 10 billion people. And our innate desire to share and build stuff together with other people can become confused, just given the scale and complexity of modern society. I think AI can actually help with that. I mean, just as the Internet helps us to connect with other like minded people around the world and helps us to collaborate and build stuff together on a wiki or an open source code project. 
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Ya know, it comes down to who owns and controls the AI as we develop it. Who shapes the minds of AI as it emerges, right? And if the AI's mind is shaped in a sort of atmosphere of, you know, productive collective sharing, mutual empathy and compassion, and group creativity. If AI is constructed with that ambiance, the odds are that's the vibe that AI is going to bring to humanity and help us to manifest as all this evolves.
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I think two of the two of the most important innovations of modern technology, the internet and the Linux operating system, are open and decentralized in their own ways, right? I mean, they're not totally decentralized. They're not totally open and everything. But, by and large, these things function without a central controller or owner. They're contributed to by a great variety of parties, not all of whom may like each other very much. And I think they're stronger technically and the world is for the better because these things have been developed in a decentralized and open way, rather than controlled by one company or one country. 

So, I think we want AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, machines that can really think, like people and ultimately better. We want this to be rolled out in the same vibe as Linux or the internet, without any central or owner or controller, and with a great variety of people from all around the world contributing to it in a connected way, but in their own way, from their own perspective. And the technology needed to do this with AI systems is just a little different than with computer networks or operating systems. I mean, because you need to coordinate these live running software systems all over the world, while they're actively doing their thing.