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Title: Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/15/182244/go...

An anonymous reader shares a report: None of the frontier AI research labs
have presented any evidence that they are on the brink of achieving
artificial general intelligence, no matter how they define that goal, but
Google is already planning for a "Post-AGI" world by hiring a scientist for
its DeepMind AI lab to research the "profound impact" that technology will
have on society. "Spearhead research projects exploring the influence of AGI
on domains such as economics, law, health/wellbeing, AGI to ASI [artificial
superintelligence], machine consciousness, and education," Google says in the
first item on a list of key responsibilities for the job. Artificial
superintelligence refers to a hypothetical form of AI that is smarter than
the smartest human in all domains. This is self explanatory, but just to be
clear, when Google refers to "machine consciousness" it's referring to the
science fiction idea of a sentient machine. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, DeepMind
CEO Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, and other major and minor players in the AI
industry are all working on AGI and have previously talked about the
likelihood of humanity achieving AGI, when that might happen, and what the
consequences might be, but the Google job listing shows that companies are
now taking concrete steps for what comes after, or are at least are
continuing to signal that they believe it can be achieved.

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