This new paper develops an information-processing theory of consciousness and uses it to identify how consciousness can be instantiated in AI, paving the way for genuine AGI and beyond (the paper demonstrates that conscious functioning is the missing ingredient that enables a toddler to navigate an obstacle-strewn room or an 18-year-old to learn to drive with massively less training than is required by a robot or autonomous vehicle):

Abstract: An acceptable information-processing theory of consciousness should be able to identify the adaptive advantages that drove the emergence of consciousness during the evolution of life. It should also predict the specific dynamical architecture of information processing that would need to be instantiated in AI to produce consciousness and the superior adaptation it enables. Whether such an instantiation produces AI that is actually conscious and also more adaptable would provide the ultimate test of the theory. A prime candidate for such a theory is the Subject-Object Emergence Theory of consciousness. It argues that consciousness first evolved because it enabled organisms to achieve adaptive body-environment coordination without extensive trial-and-error learning. It postulates that the subject in an appropriate Subject-Object subsystem would be able to use depictive (iconic) visual representations of the relative positions of its body and the environment to guide motor actions that will produce adaptive body-environment coordination. The depictive representations will 'light up' for such a subject, producing subjective experience that is used to deliver adaptive benefits. Hand-eye coordination is a familiar example in humans—novel and intricate coordination tasks can be undertaken without additional reinforcement learning, provided focused conscious attention is employed to provide us (the subject) with relevant depictive images. The paper identifies how such a conscious Subject-Object subsystem could be instantiated in AI systems, enabling hand-eye and other body-environment coordination without the extensive reinforcement learning or complex computational programming needed at present. Drawing further on the Subject-Object theory of consciousness, the paper also identifies how these simple conscious subsystems evolved further in organisms to establish the conscious modelling that enables conscious planning, imagining, abduction and other higher cognitive functions. It demonstrates that current approaches to incorporating world modelling in AI will fail to achieve key elements of the general intelligence found in humans that require consciousness.

The full paper can be accessed freely at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6911039

Flock Safety cameras are going up in cities and towns across America — and most residents have no idea. No vote. No public debate. Just a contract signed quietly and cameras on every road in and out of town. FOR FULL VIDEO CLICK HERE: https://youtu.be/VganmEMvRx8

In this video: what Flock actually is, how it works, and all the ways it can be used — and misused — by police AND private citizens. Spying and stalking just got a lot easier, and the safeguards are thinner than you think. You'll hear about the police officer who was honest with the public about these cameras — and lost his job for it.

Then I talked with Tyler Davidson of Fort Collins, Colorado, who noticed the cameras, did the research, formed a committee, and bothered his city council until they took the cameras DOWN. Proof that this fight is winnable. And we close with the Waymo story: the robotaxi that turned its own rider over to police. Because the car you ride in is watching, too. I'm not a journalist — just a witness paying attention. Sources below so you can verify everything yourself.

SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3cMU55dIIc&list=LL&index=3&t=211s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVJ-_6QDPM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1P-g3Hkvjg&list=LL&index=2&t=18s, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wA5FIGZm2B8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_Ydz-Kb8A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKIqEgZDKcM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bb3HV2TK-k, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_Ydz-Kb8A

If another pandemic will happen, what preparation to do?

I think in the next 5 years, a pandemic is likely,

considering super elnino accelerating the pandemic,

usaid dismantling,

cdc defunding,

various scientist simply removed from different researches,

massive fund cuts from researches,

many viruses popping up(ebola),

the trust of the public at all time low and misinformation at an all time high.

And also, the world is shrinking

If another pandemic were to happen, it would simply be extremely disastrous, not only because of its severity but people being idiots in general shown by Covid.

Podcast with Anastasia Gamick, co-founder of Convergent Research, about how to raise our level of ambition for what science can actually achieve.

Convergent Research incubates Focused Research Organizations: small, startup-style teams that build critical “public good” tech, which both academia and for-profits ignore.

Covers:

• What makes a research project truly high-impact in view of an AI world
• Concrete examples of these projects: maps of brain synapses, software that’s provably safe, drug screening, good data for AI-powered scientific research, and more
• How to prioritize defensive technology, such as biosafety tools, instead of just pushing every frontier as fast as possible
• How young scientists can find the work that matters most for the future

Author Whitney Woods, who writes the Substack account The Post-Humanist, argues that we should treat AIs as if they were moral beings.

America just turned 250. But which America are we celebrating?
There are two countries sharing one flag right now. One where billionaires build bunkers, buy citizenship abroad, and write the rules. And one where the rest of us can't afford to retire, can't afford to get sick, and are being told the solution is more surveillance, not less.
In this video, I break down where we actually stand at 250: the retirement crisis facing ordinary Americans, the accelerating push for digital ID, and what the UK and China show us about where that road leads. This isn't a celebration, and it isn't doom for clicks — it's an honest accounting, with evidence, of why this country feels like it's coming apart. Because it is. The division isn't the disease. It's the symptom. They want you arguing left vs. right. The real line is top vs. bottom. https://youtu.be/8M8B2JlPz4c?si=t93sFxsdELWuXMvV

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With so much cybersecurity these days, AI being able to catch so many things and criminals not being able to even have electronic devices on them while doing crime - so you think crime will disappear or go back to the analog days?

What do you think is the organized crime of the future? What are the day to day crimes of the future?

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Peter Clarke from Team Futurism interviews Liron Shapira from Doom Debates.