The Sunday afternoon symposium, called 'Worthy Successor,' revolved around a provocative idea from entrepreneur Daniel Faggella: The 'moral aim' of advanced AI should be to create a form of intelligence so powerful and wise that 'you would gladly prefer that it (not humanity) determine the future path of life itself.' A party filled with futuristic fantasies, where attendees discuss the end of humanity as a logistics problem rather than a metaphorical one, could be described as niche. If you live in San Francisco and work in AI, then this is a typical Sunday. About 100 guests nursed nonalcoholic cocktails and nibbled on cheese plates near floor-to-ceiling windows facing the Pacific ocean before gathering to hear three talks on the future of intelligence. One attendee sported a shirt that said 'Kurzweil was right,' seemingly a reference to Ray Kurzweil, the futurist who predicted machines will surpass human intelligence in the coming years. Another wore a shirt that said 'does this...
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