Dreamers and Doomers: Jeremy Nixon at AGI House – #105

About this episode

The episode features AI researcher Jeremy Nixon discussing AGI House and the implications of AI on society.

Jeremy Nixon is a prominent AI researcher, entrepreneur, and the co-founder of AGI House, a leading "hacker house" community for artificial intelligence developers in Silicon Valley. He studied Applied Math, Computer Science, and Economics at Harvard and was previously a researcher at Google Brain. This footage was shot for a documentary project, "Dreamers and Doomers," about the SF Bay Area and the dawn of AGI. (00:00) - Dreamers and Doomers: Jeremy Nixon at AGI House – #105 (01:47) - Introduction and Welcome (05:56) - Jeremy Nixon's biography (08:48) - AGI House and collectives (43:59) - AI and Scientific Research (45:52) - Existential Risks and Doom (54:14) - AI and Human Progress (01:26:42) - Job Automation and Society (01:31:35) - Future of AI and Technology – Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Hsu

Guest: Jeremy Nixon

Topics covered

• AI research
• entrepreneurship
• AGI
• existential risks
• job automation
• human progress

Keywords

• AI
• AGI House
• Jeremy Nixon
• Steve Hsu
• existential risks
• job automation
• Silicon Valley

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AGI House, Google Brain, SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram

Places: Silicon Valley, SF Bay Area, Michigan State University, University of Oregon, Harvard

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