Nabeel S. Qureshi
Nabeel S. Qureshi is an entrepreneur, writer, and researcher who currently serves as co-founder and CEO of a stealth startup. He was previously a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where his research focused on AI policy and governance, and spent nearly eight years as an Enterprise Lead and forward-deployed engineer at Palantir Technologies working on public health and biomedical AI projects. He is also a founding employee and former VP of Business Development at GoCardless, a European fintech unicorn, and has written on moral AI for outlets including WIRED.
“When you have a child, how do you educate the child? You teach it morals or you teach it religion or whatever, you imbue it with the right values. It kind of figures out what you mean by them in some mysterious way. And then it ends up behaving in roughly the ways you want it to.”
Source→“I think Vitalik came up with this term, defensive acceleration. The idea is simply that you, the good guys get the AIs first, and then you kind of patch up the world such that it's very robust.”
Source→“I think one of the philosophers that's very important for the current moment is Nick Land. And I think it's because he puts his finger on in this concept of just pure acceleration — acceleration with no human end or purpose in mind.”
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