I recently gave this talk at the new Integral Altruism speaker series on what AI Governance research can learn from metacrisis theory.
The talk covers:
Brief definitions of metacrisis and AI governance
Where metacrisis sits within AI governance research
5 key metacrisis ideas and what they contribute to AI governance research:
Multiple catastrophic threats
Structural roots: Moloch
AI as prominent threat
Civilization as misaligned system
Need for a ‘third attractor’
The slides are available here.
(The focus is especially on Daniel Schmachtenberger’s ideas on metacrisis since in my view these connect up most closely with AI governance research. For a wider survey of metacrisis perspectives check out my recent overview piece, or the Life Itself white paper.)
