DAVID HANSON ARTIST, SCIENTIST 1201 Creekfield Drive, Plano, TX 75075, Website: www.HansonRobotics.com, Portfolio: (htto./Awm.facebook.com/media/sernset—a.10150121106857024.279436.676407023) VISION I O I quest to realize Genius Machines—machines with greater than human intelligence, creativity, wisdom, and compassion. To this end, I conduct research in robotics, artificial intelligence, the arts, cognitive science, product design and deployment, integrating these efforts in the pursuit of novel human robot relations. Through this work, I pursue scientific understanding of human mind, purpose, and our context in the cosmos, seeking to philosophically and computationally model the physical nature of mind, consciousness, creativity, and emergence, and to empower our algorithms with these magical abilities. I also query: what can and should we (as a civilization, in symbiosis with our technology and with nature) create next? How can we increase the likelihood of beneficial results, and lower the probabilities of existential threats resulting from our creations? I believe that building human-inspired character agents can push our A.I. to grow positive humanlike values, build strong human-machine relations, and that these developments will be needed for intelligent machines to be safe as they approach general (human-level) intelligence and creativity. Raising such machines among us as works of art—to be protagonists, friends, and members of our family—may push them to convergently evolve values analogous to ours, and thus come to truly care for us and earn our trust. While we have a long way to go before making machines truly alive, even the early versions of the robot have made strong leaps forward towards this goal, resulting in numerous awards, breakthrough abilities in conversational capabilities and abilities to see people, see people's expressions, hold intelligible conversations, model who you are and what you believe, feel and know, i