Transfigured | John Vervaeke - AI Sages & AI Demons: Discerning the Spirits of our Digital Age @transfigured3673 | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
John Vervaeke is the director of the Cognitive Science program at the University of Toronto. We discuss the possibility of creating AI sages that can lead to enlightenment as well as the dangers. We mention @JonathanPageau , @climbingmt.sophia ( Ken Lowry) , DC Schlinder, @PaulVanderKlay , Plotinus, Iamblichus, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Buddha, Charles Taylor, and more.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:30 - John's Proposal for AI Sages
00:13:30 - Preconditions for artificial wisdom
00:19:20 - AI Embodiment
00:32:40 - Is Wisdom context dependent?
00:45:40 - What could an AI Sage teach us?
0048:15 - Could we trust an AI Sage?
00:56:15 - Designing an AI Cult
01:04:30 - AI and Higher Beings
01:17:30 - Closing Remarks