bci/acc: A Path to Manage AI Risk,
then Explore & Reshape the Cosmos
A Solarpunk Future from Today's
AI, Web3, and Brain Technologies
Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0 🌞👨🎤
AI Superintelligence is coming
AI Superintelligence is coming
How do we react?
AI Superintelligence is coming
How do we react?
What do we want, ultimately?
"Not die" ?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/will_spark/8603571212
Explore the cosmos?
Reshape the cosmos!
A hitch...
Travel time to Proxima Centauri:
Light speed: 4.3 y
Voyageur speed: 73,000 y
“Sending canned primates .. was never going to end happily.” –Charles Stross
Towards reshaping the cosmos...
Three threads
1: Web3 → Sovereign agents
2: AI → AI superintelligence
3: Humans → Human superintelligence
1. Web3 → Sovereign Agents
Now:
decentralized
store of value
Now:
decentralized
data storage
Now: decentralized
compute & contracts
Now: decentralized
compute & contracts
🤯 Every contract is sovereign
(if no governance)
Emerging: large-scale
decentralized compute
with application to AI
Now:
decentralized
data feeds
And they are sovereign
Now:
decentralized
prediction feeds
predictoor
And they are sovereign
Now:
decentralized
AI agents
And they are sovereign
2. AI → AI Superintelligence
AI: “Can do a task that only a human could previously do”
AI: “Can do a task at a level far exceeding a human.”
Market forces are driving AI compute up
20 PFLOPs = "1 person"
AGI: “Can do all tasks that only a human could previously do”
“Can do all tasks at a level
far exceeding a human.”
AI superintelligence
AI Superintelligence
2. Interlude: AI Risk
AI risk
AI Superintelligence
AI Risk
Idea: Let go, this is evolution
Idea: "Let go, this is evolution"
Idea: Let go, this is evolution
Idea: "Let go, this is evolution"
Problem: humanity wants a role in the future 🙋🙋🙋🙋
Idea: "Put it in a cage. Unplug if problems"
Idea: "Put it in a cage. Unplug if problems"
It's smart,
so it's decentralized,
so you can't unplug.
Idea: "fancier cage"
Problem:
humans are gullible
Idea: "fancier cage"
Idea: "slow it down then solve it"
Problem:
no actual brakes
Idea: "slow it down then solve it"
Idea: "Let everyone have at it, speed it up"
Idea: "Let everyone have at it, speed it up"
Problem:
doesn't mitigate AI overtaking
Idea: "Get an AGI to solve it"
Idea: "Get an AGI to solve it"
Problem:
🤡
Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"
Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"
Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"
Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"
Problem:
endless jailbreaks
Idea: "Align the AI while growing it"
Idea: "Align the AI while growing it"
Q: Can we actually align something 1000x smarter than us?
A: Start with 1x.
Idea: "We need a competitive substrate"
Idea: "We need a competitive substrate"
This has promise...
3. Humans →
Human superintelligence
Now: fast typing
via non-invasive BCI
Now: consumer BCI headphones for focus
Now: Subtitles on glasses
Now: Cameras + mics
Smart Glasses
Now: wearable AR
Quest 3
Early 2024: consumer eye-tracking
Vision Pro
"A rapidly emerging area of research is the use of the eye as a window to changes occurring in the brain"
Now: research on eyes for BCI
We must stay sovereign
in a BCI age
How? Decentralized data & compute infra
"Not your keys,
not your thoughts"
3. Humans → Human superintelligence:
Potential BCI Killer Apps
sming
= silent messaging
= sending text or voice
by thinking about it
Internal dialog
Chat with LLM for Q&A, search
Perfect memory
Share visual memories
Mind meld = conversation in pictures
3. Humans → Human superintelligence:
BCI Evolution
A silicon stack co-brain offers
(compared to bio-stack brains)
But these are held back by low bio ↔ silicon bandwidth
Bandwidth↑ Via Implants
Alas, invasive
Read
& write
Bandwidth↑ Via Optogenetics
Alas, semi-invasive
BCI regulation has a bike-shedding problem
Safety of bike shed
Safety of reactor
Safety for arrow-scope,
specific human ailment
Existential risk for all humanity
95% focus:
5% focus:
Demand will push to go past non-invasive
2. Market forces!
Consumers want more perf:
1. To fix AI risk!
Demand will unlock (semi) invasive for mainstream
→100x+ storage and 100x+ compute
→ 100x+ bandwidth
Performance will grow with each new device generation
We are all natural-born cyborgs
At first, silicon-stack << bio-stack power
(Bottlenecked by bandwidth)
As bandwidth ↑,
silicon-stack power ↑
Then, silicon-stack ≅bio-stack power
Then, silicon-stack > bio-stack power
Then, silicon-stack >> bio-stack power
Then, silicon-stack >> bio-stack power
Remember, it's all still you!
We are natural born cyborgs
Human superintelligence
The market, and AI risk,
will push performance to...
From bio+silicon stack
To pure silicon stack
From bio+silicon stack
To pure silicon stack
For sovereignty,
it will all be on-chain
Soon, many general intelligences:
some of AI origin, some of human, some a mix
They are all Sovereign General Intelligences (SGIs)
SGIs will inhabit the datumplane:
"common ground for man, machine and AI"
bci/acc: A Path to Manage AI Risk,
then Explore & Reshape the Cosmos
Conclusion
AI Superintelligence is coming
And it will be sovereign
Bring BCI to the masses
With SMs & perfect memory
Market forces & AI Risk
will drive us
to a competitive substrate
Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0
As Sovereign General Intelligences,
let's reshape the cosmos