If we could prevent the diseases of aging, we could prevent aging itself. We could empower “older” people to work like younger people for as long as they want to–if they want to. In this Seeking Delphi™ special edition mini-cast, Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) presidnet Keith Comito joins host Mark Sackler to discuss the upcoming Ending-Age Releated Diseases conference, to be held July 11 and 12 at Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA. The biggest names in ending research will be there to present, including Aubrey de Grey of SENS Foundation and George Church of Rejuvenate Bio and Harvard University.
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“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”–Elon Musk
Our thoughts–or theirs?
One might easily say about the notion of the ethics of disruptive technology–much like Mark Twain’s misattributed missive about the weather–that “everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything.” But IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is doing something. Freshly minted from their Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, is the 290-page first edition of Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-Being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. If that title sounds like a mouthful, it ought to. The issues that need to be addressed, to prevent the summoning of the demon that Elon Musk warns of, are complex.
In Seeking Delphi podcast #31, host Mark Sackler talks at length with John C. Havens, executive director of the initiative, about the massive effort, with hundreds of volunteers, that went into this volume. Havens previously was a guest on Seeking Delphi™ episode #17, to discuss the challenges of ethics in A.I. design and implementation. He is also the author of Heartificial Intelligenceon Emotion A.I.
You can download Ethically Aligned Design from the link below.
“The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt”–Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis addresses the Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap workshop at the X Prize Foundation, April 29, 2019.
If you want to know the raison d’etre of the X Prize, you need go no further than the Peter Diamandis quote above. It’s all about pushing the boundaries of science and technology. It’s about achieving the heretofore unachievable.
The Future of Longevity X Prize Impact Roadmap workshop was held at the X Prize Foundation headquarters in Culver City, CA, April 29-30. 2019. It brought together dozens of diverse thought leaders across science, industry and longvity advocacy. Sponsored by X Prize board member, and Longevity Vision Fund founder, Sergey Young, its aim was to brainstorm ideas for a longevity X Prize. This Seeking Delphi™ special edition podcast features interviews and commentary from the workshop.
Special Edition Podcast: Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap
Ending Age-Related Diseases conference (click image for details)
“My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk, 2013
“We’ll have a fleet of robo taxis by the end of next year.”–(paraphrased), Elon Musk, this week
Ah, you have to love Elon Musk. Or maybe not. If he were a politician, the election opponents would be all over him for flip-flopping. Ok, so we’ll allow him to change his mind in light of further technological developments. The problem is, some pretty big names in field of autonomous vehicles don’t agree with him. And as for his track record on Tesla promises…well, you know the drill.
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–Tesla posted this video of an autonomous road trip (below)
Elon unveilled a Boring Company hyperloop test tunnel in California last year
Hyperloop/Boring Company–On another Elon Musk front, his The Boring Company made a major step towards a formal government approval of its first subterranean hyperloop transport system. It filed a 505-page environmental assessment study on the impact of its proposed NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC underground transit loop. Musk says an initial 16 tunnels for the route between Baltimore and D.C. could be completed in 15-23 months. Judging by the number of state, local and federal agencies that have to sign off on the proposal, it’s likely to take a lot longer than that to get the needed approvals.
Surveillance/Existential Risk.–Techno-philospher Nick Bostrom may be best known as a dyed-in-the wool transhumanist, and the man who first proffered the suggestion that all of us may living in an simulation. Now–going one step farther than Stephen Hawking’s suggestion that we might need a global government to keep tabs on the existential risks of technology–Bostrom has suggested that global surveillance of every single human might be the only thing that can save us.
Seeking Delphi™ podcast/coming attractions: John C. Havens on IEEE’s new volume, Ethically Alligned Design, laying out their proposed framework for the safe and beneficial development of A.I. and other automated systems.
If you’re fed up with all the doings on our messed up planet, this is the perfect week to be reading about news of the future. Most of it takes place off of terra firma.
While you’re reading about all this week’s future-related news, don’t forget that you can subscribe to Seeking Delphi™ podcasts on iTunes, PlayerFM, or YouTube(audio with slide show) and you can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Seeking Delphi™ podcast/coming attractions: Intel’s Katalin Bártfai-Walcott joins host Mark Sackler to discuss the future of ambient computing and digital twins.
“A gracefull and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”–Pindar
The returns are in. The 2019 Undoing Aging conference, held in Berlin, March 28-30, was a smash hit. 500 attendees (a sellout) heard the latest on dozens of lines of research to slow, stop, or reverse the ravages of aging. At 68, I can only hope that the progress accelerates. In this podcast special edition, we;ll hear, once again, from Aubrey de Grey, as well as Nir Barzilai (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Vadim Gladyshev (Harvard University) and José Cordeiro (author of La Muerte de la Muerte, and candidate for the European parliament).
But as science progresses, we need to be looking ahead to the societal implications of radically extended life span. To that end, I’ll be attending The Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap workshop at the headquarters of the XPrize in Culver City, CA later this month