12.10 Conclusion: Eight Ways to Bias AGI Toward Friendliness 239 To make these ideas more concrete, we may speculatively reformulate the first two “global brain phases” mentioned above as follows: e Phase 1 global brain proto-mindplex: AI/AGI systems enhancing online databases, guiding Google results, forwarding e-mails, suggesting mailing-lists, etc. - generally using intelligence to mediate and guide human communications toward goals that are its own, but that are themselves guided by human goals, statements and actions e Phase 2 global brain mindplex: AGI systems composing documents, editing human-written documents, sending and receiving e-mails, assembling mailing lists and posting to them, creating new databases and instructing humans in their use, etc. In Phase 2, the conscious theater of the global-brain-mediating AGI system is composed of ideas built by numerous individual humans - or ideas emergent from ideas built by numerous individual humans - and it conceives ideas that guide the actions and thoughts of individual humans, in a way that is motivated by its own goals. It does not force the individual humans to do anything - but if a given human wishes to communicate and interact using the same databases, mailing lists and evolving vocabularies as other humans, they are going to have to use the products of the global brain mediating AGI, which means they are going to have to participate in its patterns and its activities. Of course, the advent of advanced neurocomputer interfaces makes the picture potentially more complex. At some point, it will likely be possible for humans to project thoughts and images directly into computers without going through mouse or keyboard - and to “read in” thoughts and images similarly. When this occurs, interaction between humans may in some con- texts become more like interactions between computers, and the role of global brain mediating AI servers may become one of mediating direct thought-to-thought exchanges between