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Ben Goertzel

CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

Director of Research, SIAI

A Roadmap to Ethical Artificial General Intelligence

A roadmap to powerful, ethical AGI will be described, based on creating virtually and robotically embodied AGI systems that follow a similar developmental trajectory to human children, but possess a more rationally structured goal system. It is proposed that, by following the right sort of developmental trajectory, an AGI system will learn to conduct -- and exploit synergies between -- ethical cognition corresponding to the four key types of memory (procedural, episodic, declarative and sensorimotor). Current work on virtual agent control and humanoid robotics will be demonstrated, as early steps toward this goal.