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Exploring Ultimate Questions About the Future of Intelligence
 

Welcome to the Center for the Future Mind

The Center is a multi-disciplinary hub where thought leaders in philosophy, complex systems, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience come together to analyze vital scientific, societal, and ethical issues. With world-renowned experts, a major media presence, and regular presentations to Congress and their staff, the Center aims to deepen our understanding of the future of intelligence.

The Center explores questions like the following:
•  How does machine intelligence compare to human intelligence? And how can these distinct intelligences best work together?
•  What is the nature of the self, mind and consciousness?
•  What are the epistemic strengths and weaknesses of today’s large language models (LLMs)?

The Center is directed by Susan Schneider, the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University and former NASA Chair and Distinguished Scholar at the Library of Congress.

Spotlight: Center Activities
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Wall Street Journal: Artificial Intelligence Needs Guardrails and Global Cooperation

Risks abound when the internet becomes a playpen for thousands, perhaps millions, of artificial intelligence systems.

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OpenAI INSIDER Shares Future Scenarios | Scott Aaronson
OpenAI INSIDER Shares Future Scenarios | Scott Aaronson

Lecture by Scott Aaronson at MindFest 2024

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Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious

An interview with Susan Schneider.

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"AI Shouldn’t Decide What’s True"

Published in Nautilus. Experts on why trusting artificial intelligence to give us the truth is a foolish bargain.

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AI Workshop series
Synthesizing Existence: AI, ALife, and the Fermi Paradox Workshop

Video coming soon!

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Miami Herald Feature on Mindfest 2023
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Press Coverage

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Talks
Ben Goertzel
AGI is 5 Years Away!

Ben Goertzel speaking at Center Mindfest 2023

Stephen Wolfram
ChatGPT, Dark Matter, & AI

Stephen Wolfram speaking at Center Mindfest 2023

Alex Ellery
Alex Ellery

Self-replication, Lunar Industrial Ecology, and Space Colonization

Videos
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Is Artificial General Intelligence too Dangerous to Build?

Eliezer Yudkowsky discusses his rationale for ceasing the development of Als more sophisticated than GPT-4.

Yoshua Bengio
Towards Neural Nets for Conscious Processing and Causal Reasoning

Yoshua Bengio speaking at Center for the Future Mind

Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson

Brain Simulability, Institutional Innovation, and Prediction Markets

News
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Mark Bailey, Ph.D. - Center Distinguished Senior Fellow on Artificial Intelligence, Complexity and Risk named Homeland Security Today’s “Trailblazers 23"
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Kilian and Mark Bailey in Futures on Differential AI Risk and the Problem of Control
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Futurism article about Center Fellow Dr. Mark Bailey's Paper on the Fermi Paradox
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Member Lenore Blum spearheads open letter calling for AI consciousness research in Large Language Models
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Florida Atlantic Mindfest 2023 Marks Grand Opening of Center for the Future Mind
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What is consciousness? ChatGPT and advanced AI might redefine our answer
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Garrett Mindt interviewed in Inverse: The wildest sci-fi movie on Netflix reveals a way to hack your brain
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Susan Schneider and Jonathan Birch, "Investigating Nonhuman Consciousness"
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Center for the Future Mind Welcomes Two New Postdocs to the Sandbox, the Lab and the Center
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Events
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