From: Lesley Groff To: "David Hanson" Subject: Re: Next Meeting, and materials Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:50:44 +0000 will do! I will forward to him and print the attachments.. On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:44 PM, David Hanson wrote: Hi Lesley, This email to Jeffrey bounced, so I hope you can get it to him with the attached materials, which are important for our discussion. Thank you! David Hi Jeffrey, Here are some materials related to my vision for the pursuit of Genius Machines, including the attached white paper summary of the Genius Machines project (under the title of the GENI-Lab), my CV, and the following summary statement of my aspirations for the lab: • I strive for Genius Machines — machines with greater-than-human capabilities, especially consciousness, creativity and compassion. To this end, I propose founding the Lab for Friendly Genius Machines, a.k.a. GENI-Lab, to develop brilliant robots that literally come to life. • The GENI-Lab will pursue the superdiscipline of artificial genius, bridging the arts, A.I., robotics, sciences of mind, and bio-inspired engineering. Each GENI--an acronym for GENeration of Intelligence—represents an iterative step towards Genius Machines. • The GENI-Lab aspires to understand the physical/mathematical nature of mind, creativity, play, ethics, and compassion, and test its theories within embodied anthropomorphic characters, including androids. • When embodied as such, GENI may inspire love, learn from intuitive interactions with people, and grow to understand us better. Such character-GENI also help to scientifically investigate human perception and relationships. • Testing human responses to such GENI robots can help scientifically investigate human perception, and improve human-agent interactions. Raising AGI among people as characters may develop machine empathy. Yet, this work could produce unintended consequences; therefore, we will investigate potential hazards of human-AGI interactions, both