Name: AI and the Intelligence Explosion | Phoenix
Start: 2025-07-01T23:00:00.000Z
Location: Meeting Room A, Burton Barr Central Library

This free, non-technical workshop is open to anyone who’s ever wondered where artificial intelligence might ultimately lead and wants to explore the topic in a relaxed, fun, and interactive setting.

We’ll review the history of Artificial Intelligence, emphasizing the astonishing progress made over just the last two years.

From there we’ll dive into big-picture ideas that excite (and sometimes unsettle) researchers: the singularity, the intelligence explosion hypothesis, and the possibility of superintelligence. Using playful thought experiments and small-group activities, we’ll unpack why reward hacking, instrumental convergence, and rapid self-improvement matter—even if you’ve never written a line of code.

Expect approachable explanations, live demos, collaborative forecasts, and plenty of room for questions. Come curious; leave with a clearer picture of where AI could be heading and how we might navigate the journey together.

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This is a free workshop open to the public for all levels of experience with AI. We’ll give a quick overview of the current state of AI capabilities, with a focus on how much has changed in the last 5 months, as well as where AI is going over the next 1-5 years.

The purpose of this workshop is to give a broad introduction to risks and benefits of current and near-future AI systems as well as how AI researchers at top AI companies view the future of AI development.
We’ll have a quick introductory talk, some demonstrations of current AI capabilities and risks, and then close with some forecasting/prediction exercises about where AI might be going in the future.

Speaker Bio:

Chris is an artist, entrepreneur, and engineer. He has built systems and cultures that have stood the test of time at Heroku, Coinbase, and Stripe. After a career break in the Brooklyn underground music scene led him to the Recurse Center, he met Changlin and rediscovered his love of code through llms. Today he works as an AI product engineer at GRAX - a Salesforce data replication company.

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