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    Geoffrey Hinton wants to give superintelligent AI ‘maternal instincts’

    AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton just proposed a wild solution to the existential AI threat: instead of trying to force superintelligent systems into submission, we should give them "maternal instincts." He argues that a mother caring for her baby is the only working model of a smarter being controlled by a less intelligent one, though Fei-Fei Li pushed back, insisting humanity shouldn't surrender its agency.

  2. IndustryReach 39

    Emmett Shear is back with an ant-colony AI startup

    Former interim OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear just co-founded Softmax, a 10-person research startup pursuing "organic alignment" inspired by biology and ant colonies. Instead of top-down hierarchical control, the team is running reinforcement learning tests on small agents in virtual worlds to study emergent cooperation. Softmax has raised backing from Andreessen Horowitz and others.