Whole Brain Emulation - Foresight Institute

Where are we on the path of being capable of Whole Brain Emulation?

• What are the plausible development paths and necessary steps for achieving full Whole Brain Emulation?

• Is there potential for accelerating Whole Brain Emulation development, and if so, how would it be achieved?

• What risks and ethical issues are associated with Whole Brain Emulation, and how can they be addressed?

Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) is a potential technology to generate software intelligence that is human-aligned simply by being based directly on human brains. Recently, many people have updated their AGI timelines towards earlier development, raising safety concerns. In turn, this has led some to consider whether WBE development could be significantly accelerated in order to produce a differential technology development that might lessen the risk of unaligned AGI by the presence of aligned software intelligence. This two-day event invited researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders to think through and make progress on these questions, attending to how plausible this technology is and what the effects would be of deploying it. To learn more about this event from Foresight Institute, read about it here.