Can AI strengthen human cooperation and democratic life rather than make them increasingly irrelevant? A discussion at Oxford Physics with @audreyt on Civic AI, plurality, and designing technology for collective intelligence.
Discussion summary below👇
archive.tw/2026-09-11-oxford…
Under the auspices of Oxford Physics, we held a discussion on the implications of recent work using genome language models to design novel, viable bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria.
Read the full discussion summary via the link below:
drive.google.com/file/d/18Sz…
Participants: Nick Bostrom, Tom Milton, Rahul Nandkishore, Anders Sandberg, Shivaji Sondhi FRS, and K. VijayRaghavan FRS.
The paper by Arc Institute and Stanford researchers that prompted our
discussion:
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
This discussion was part of a preparatory series for a new program based in Oxford Physics on the challenges posed by rapid technological progress, particularly in AI.
Read the full discussion summary via the link in our previous post.
Can LLMs reach AGI—and genuine explanatory creativity? A discussion at Oxford Physics with David Deutsch, Adam Brown, Nick Bostrom, Vedika Khemani, Roger Myerson, Rahul Nandkishore, Toby Ord, Martin Rees, Anders Sandberg, Umesh Vazirani & K. VijayRaghavan
drive.google.com/file/d/1kxv…
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