The Big Picture (AGI)

What you'll learn — competencies

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Badges you can earn

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Naming the Beast Timeline Reader Skeptic's Edge Alignment Aware Looking Inside Someone or Something Risk & Promise Takeoff Reader Reading the Labs Big Picture The Long View

Course modules

1. Section 01: What Are We Even Talking About? AGI, Superintelligence & Why Nobody Agrees
2. Section 02: When? The Timelines Debate
3. Section 03: The Case for "Not So Fast" (or Not at All)
4. Section 04: The Alignment Problem: Why "Just Make It Good" Is Hard
5. Section 05: Can We Look Inside? Interpretability as a Hope
6. Section 06: Could It Be Someone, Not Just Something? Consciousness & Moral Status
7. Section 07: Doom or Abundance? Existential Risk vs. the Optimist Future
8. Section 08: How Fast, If It Happens? Takeoff Scenarios
9. Section 09: What the Labs Say They're Doing (Read Critically)
10. Section 10: The Big Picture: Power, Purpose & the Long-Term Future (Your View)

Suggested pre-requisites

Pre-requisites are recommendations, not gates — you can enroll in any course at any time.

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