“Summary of our Workshop on Post-AGI Outcomes” by David Duvenaud, Raymond Douglas, Nora_Ammann, Jan_Kulveit

Last month we held a workshop on Post-AGI outcomes. This post is a list of all the talks, with short summaries, as well as my personal takeaways.

The first keynote was @Joe Carlsmith on “Can Goodness Compete?”. He asked: can anyone compete with “Locusts”: those who want to use all resources to replicate as fast as possible?

Longer version with transcript

The second keynote was @Richard_Ngo on “Flourishing in a highly unequal world”. He argued that future beings will vary greatly in power and intelligence, so we should aim for “healthy asymmetric" relations, analogous to that between parent and child.

Morgan MacInnes of U Toronto Political Science spoke on "The history of technologically provoked welfare erosion". His work with Allan Dafoe argued that competitive pressure sometimes forces states to treat their own citizens badly.

The next talk was a direct rebuttal to Morgan's [...]

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Outline:

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First published:

August 29th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/csdn3e8wQ3h6nG6kN/summary-of-our-workshop-on-post-agi-outcomes

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