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Book discussion / AGI scenario planning

Science Fiction as Scenario Planning: Red Heart by Max Harms

Attendees discussed Max Harms’s novel Red Heart as a scenario for exploring trust, U.S.–China competition and the choices an AGI might make.

Noon–1 p.m. CDTOnlineAttendee discussion

About the conversation

In Red Heart, Chen Bai enters a Chinese AI lab to pass its research to the CIA. There he encounters Yunna, an artificial general intelligence whose choices matter to both sides. The novel raises a question for scenario planning. How might an AI’s own aims change the plans of the governments competing over it?

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