Re: Global Digital Compact - Your online participation to the Internet Governance Deep Dive, 13 April

supplemental,

Quick thought re: perhaps also, treaty on AI Weapons???  I wrote this
linkedin article "What is the Definition of an 'AI Weapon'" back in 2015
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/definition-ai-weapon-timothy-holborn/

Is there now a good definition of an AI Weapon?

Tim.h.

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 00:21, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jerome,
>
> If it turns out that there's not an opportunity for the governance
> deep-dive, note the sessions for other deep-dive topics,
>
> NB: Thematic Deep-Dive - Artificial Intelligence and other emerging
> technologies
> When: 2 June 2023 - starting 10.00 ET
>
> This and other sessions (inc. registration);
> https://www.un.org/techenvoy/global-digital-compact/intergovernmental-process#_blank
>
> With respect to the proposed treaty on AGI - I welcome continued and
> enhanced collaboration on whatever we might be able to achieve, perhaps for
> submission to the June session??  or whatever alternative suggestion, we
> might be able to cooperatively figure out between now & then..?
>
> FWIW | IMO: - Paul's notes about QAGI (Quantum AGI - Paul, is that right?)
> is a next level implication, that deserves more time workshopping via
> whatever the most appropriate venue might be, yet i think also - getting a
> better grasp of what the definition of 'intelligence' means, probably leads
> to improved nomenclature for both...   i wouldn't consider an outcome that
> leads to the end of life on earth, ww3 or various other forms of dystopian
> futures - 'intelligent'...
> [image: AGI_meme.jpg]
>
>
> Whereas, outcomes that deliver a capacity for us to transformationally
> *improve* life on earth, support for human rights and other outcomes far
> beyond SDGs, is something that i'd consider 'intelligent'...  Yet, atm, i'm
> not sure if that's presently part of the definition???
>
> I think it might be helpful to work on some definitions that, are more
> nuanced than pre-existing, seemingly somewhat binary characteristics..
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Timothy Holborn.
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 00:07, Jerome Glenn <jglenn@igc.org> wrote:
>
>> Timothy,
>>
>>
>>
>> Since Paul suggested I fill in, incase he cannot make the 13 April event,
>> I have registered to participate. But since it might be too late.  Here is
>> what I would submit:
>>
>>
>>
>> On behalf of The Millennium Project’s 27 years of global futures
>> research, I have the honor to recommend that the UN Summit of the Future
>> include discussions for a UN Treaty on Artificial General Intelligence –
>> not narrow AI we have today day, but general AI we could have within 10 or
>> 20 years. If we do not get the initial conditions right for this future
>> AGI, then it could evolve into a super intelligence beyond our control.
>> This is what Hawking, Gates, and others have warned about.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some think that such discussion of regulation is premature or that it
>> will hurt the development of AGI, but this forgets that it could take 10 or
>> more years to create agreements on initial conditions for AGI, then a UN
>> treaty, and then a global governance system. We have to create a global
>> agreement on how to manage AGI BEFORE it gets created. This could be the
>> most difficult management challenge we face today.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jerome C. Glenn, h.c. Dr. h.c. mult.
>>
>> Co-Founder and CEO, The Millennium Project
>> <http://www.millennium-project.org/>
>>
>> Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions
>> <http://www.millennium-project.org/projects/workshops-on-future-of-worktechnology-2050-scenarios/>
>>
>> State of the Future 19.1
>> <http://www.millennium-project.org/state-of-the-future-version-19-1/>
>>
>> Futures Research Methodology 3.0
>> <http://www.millennium-project.org/publications-2/futures-research-methodology-version-3-0/>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Paul Werbos <paul.werbos@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3:08 AM
>> *To:* Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* peace-infrastructure-project@googlegroups.com;
>> public-humancentricai@w3.org; Jerome Clayton Glenn <jglenn@igc.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: Global Digital Compact - Your online participation to the
>> Internet Governance Deep Dive, 13 April
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, Tim! I submitted registration but it is April 11 4pm here in Japan,
>> and I don't know how this will work. I use a cellphone here.
>>
>>
>>
>> As you know, the role of AGI, cyber security and new quantum technology
>> are absolutely essential to mapping the choices and dilemmas here, and it
>> would be hard to fill the gaps they face. But maybe you and Jerry could
>> fill in, with me helping from a distance.
>>
>>
>>
>> THIS week I am hoping for Google to fill in, but for now that is just a
>> hope.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 3:54 PM Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> FYI: If you would like to participate, the registration link can be found
>> via;
>> https://www.un.org/techenvoy/global-digital-compact/intergovernmental-process#_blank
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> RE: below, I have removed the access details to the session, which will
>> be sent to you if you successfully register (perhaps, in-time, idk).
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Timothy Holborn.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Subject: Global Digital Compact - Your online participation to the
>> Internet Governance Deep Dive, 13 April
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