Methods are currently lacking to prove artificial general intelligence (AGI) safety. An AGI ‘hard takeoff’ is possible, in which first generation AGI1 rapidly triggers a succession of more powerful AGIn that differ dramatically their computational capabilities (AGIn << AGIn+1). No proof exists will benefit humans or sound value-alignment method. Numerous paths toward human extinction subj...

Abstract Research on the different components of fluid intelligence and how they relate to each other is quite extensive. Meanwhile, when it comes crystallized intelligence, only vocabulary size has been somewhat thoroughly studied, while key components, such as general knowledge, remain largely unexplored. This study aims further our understanding knowledge a component whole, by exploring infl...

This article takes a balanced look at artificial general intelligence and speculates on possible outcomes for the technology’s eventual development deployment.

Section 1 discusses the conceptual foundations of general intelligence as a discipline, orienting it within the Integrated Causal Model of Tooby and Cosmides; Section 2 constitutes the bulk of the paper and discusses the functional decomposition of general intelligence into a complex supersystem of interdependent internally specialized processes, and structures the description using five succes...