Robin Hanson, George Mason University
Robin Hanson, George Mason University
Em Econ 101: Sketching A Society Of Emulated Minds
Em Econ 101: Sketching A Society Of Emulated Minds
18 Apr 20133:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Open to public
Location:
Cotting Conference Room
Organizer:
The three most disruptive transitions in history were the introduction of humans, farming, and industry. If another transition lies ahead, a good guess for its source is artificial intelligence in the form of whole brain emulations, or “ems,” sometime in the next century. I apply standard academic consensus science, including social science, to this unusual situation, to outline a baseline scenario set modestly far into a post-em-transition world. I consider families, reproduction, mating, cities, finance, training, careers, management, identity, talk, culture, security, inequality, life plans, daily activities, property rights, industrial organization, and governance.