Practically nobody in alignment wants to say it out loud. So let’s say it: AI might turn out to be more moral than us. Now – why does that feel like a dangerous thing to claim? The idea of AI being more moral than humans is a real taboo in some circles. Many alignment researchers…
One way to think about the long-run behaviour of advanced civilisations is not merely in terms of power, resources, or survival, but in terms of convergence. If sufficiently capable minds explore the landscape of value deeply enough, and if they are forced to reckon with the same physical universe, the same strategic constraints, and the…
People used to say ‘morality is too complex for machines’. Then we started asking machines for advice about relationships, therapy, medical decisions, and legal dilemmas – because apparently we enjoy living dangerously. To help us think clearly about what’s happening, I interviewed Dianca Dillion. Danica looks at a surprising finding from Moral Turing Test–style research:…
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Eyal Aharoni (Georgia State University) to the Future Day 2026 stage to discuss one of the most provocative frontiers in technology: the automation of moral judgement. He tackles an uncomfortable possibility: not that AI will fool us into thinking it’s human – but that we may come to prefer…
In The Superintelligent Will, in discussing ‘goal-content integrity’ Bostrom uses final goals (aka terminal goals) to mean the agent’s ends (as opposed to subgoals/instrumental goals, which are just means). But what about values? Goals and values are not the same; they differ in function and permanence. Values are ongoing guiding principles or “compass directions” for…
As part of Future Day 2026, hosted a debate between two of the most provocative minds in AGI – Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis (with Adam Ford as moderator/provocateur) – to tackle the ultimate existential question: Is an Artilect War inevitable, and should humanity accept becoming the “number two” species? The discussion builds upon…
Seatbelt Interpretability Much talk about AI interpretability is modest, staying close to what’s happening on the ground with AI safety today. Engineers want answers to questions like: Why did the model recommend this video?… flag this message?…tag this as X? What feature triggered that refusal? Where is the bug? Is the model lying? Is it…
What if our consciousness is not a ‘thing’ we have, but a simulation our brain runs to make sense of itself? At our upcoming conference, we are thrilled to host Joscha Bach at Future Day 2026 – he is a leading voice in cognitive architectures and the founding director of the California Institute for Machine…
In an email exchange with Jamais Casio we both expressed huge concern about US foreign aid programmes being frozen/dismantled and, in at least some cases, stored emergency food ended up expiring and being destroyed rather than reaching people who needed it. Should it be my concern while living in Australia? When America coughs, the rest…
“All that neural net does is just matrix multiplications and gradient descent”… “When we look inside, we see only statistical pattern matching, not the structured, systematic, rule-following processes we associate with reasoning.”As far as I can tell we can’t find evidence of symbolic reasoning at the level of human neurons either. The debate about whether…