Engineering the Future of Our Choice with General Artificial Intelligence

JoEllen Lukavec Koester

AI Evangelist & Safety Ambassador

GoodAI

General Artificial Intelligence and GoodAI

• International team of 30 researchers

• $10M investment

• Team members = co-owners of GoodAI

• AI development + real-world impact

Our mission

Develop general artificial intelligence as fast as possible,

be helpful to humanity, and understand the universe.

Engineering the Future

What is the future we want to create?

The future we want to create

science investment ∙ space exploration ∙ defense ∙ save lives

end disease ∙ end tragedy and disaster ∙ help others

solve our greatest problems ∙ understand the universe

Likely path forward…

AI is increasingly more skilled than humans at performing human tasks. Where will this lead?

Effect on Jobs (Short term)

Increased automation in our

economy

Employers start to prefer intelligent machine workers to human ones

Job replacement

Effects (Long Term)

Institution of a universal basic

income

No need to work to survive

Humans merge with AI/AGI technology?

Effects (Long Term)

General AIs will work, so you won’t have to.

Challenges and pitfalls

Risks from…- people

- governments / institutions

- AGI technology

Open the conversation

How can we ensure this vision becomes reality?