p(doom): A Theoretical Inquiry

2 Credits · Level: Graduate

One of the hottest issues within the broader debate about AI and its cultural impact is the potential for this technology to create massive, perhaps even existential, impacts on humanity as we know it. In this seminar, we'll undertake a rigorous technical and theoretical investigation of these claims. We'll look deeper at the capabilities and limitations of existing and proposed AI architectures, and seek to better understand the theoretical models for often-cited possibilities such as AGI and Superintelligence. We'll compare popular accounts of these technologies to their realities. Our goal is to produce a strongly-grounded answer to the newly relevant question: 'what's your p(doom)?'