Paths to Progress in Neurotechnology
Protocol Labs and Foresight Institute are excited to invite you to apply to a 5-day mini-workshop series to celebrate LabWeek, PL’s decentralized conference to further public goods. The theme of the series, Paths to Progress, is aimed at (re)-igniting long overdue progress in longevity bio, molecular nanotechnology, neurotechnology, crypto & AI, and space through emerging decentralized, open, and technology-enabled funding mechanisms.
LabWeek also includes many additional events focused on Public Goods Funding, Sustainability, and Decentralized Science. Register and learn more at labweek.io/24-pg.
This mini-workshop is focused on Paths to Progress in Neurotechnology:
Ambitious and sometimes unconventional approaches to neurotechnology progress are rapidly emerging. At the same time, AGI timelines are rapidly shortening. This is why Foresight’s AI safety grants and fellowship have funded a subset of neurotech approaches that may provide a differential technology development approach to AGI. Let’s hear about progress to date, which open challenges could be taken on by emerging funding mechanisms such as lofi uploading prizes and grants, and which challenges may need softer field-building and community organizing.
Presentations include:
Juan Benet, Protocol Labs: Neurotech as a PL focus area
Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute: Highlights from Foresight's grants in neurotech for AI safety
Max Hodak, Science: Learning from Science for neurotechnology innovation
Michael Andregg, Fathom & stealth: Lo-fi uploading paths for the brain
Chase Denecke, Bootstrap Bio: How gene editing could raise the floor and ceiling of human experience
Jan Kirchner, OpenAI: Neurotechnology and the weak to strong AI generalization framework
Short presentations will highlight science and technology opportunities as well as new tools for finding and funding progress. We’ll break into groups to deepdive on your shared interests and close with plenary report-outs to map progress opportunities to enablers. Our question is: what could this community build to close the current progress gaps?
Our workshop capacity is extremely limited. If you’d like to attend, please consider applying soon. We hope you join us to explore new R&D/DeSci technologies for advancing technological progress for the benefit of life.
To apply to the other workshops on bio, nano, neuro, crypto, AI in this series, you can do via the full Paths to Progress @LabWeek events calendar.
For those who want more, learnings from the LabWeek workshop series will feed directly into Foresight’s 2024 technical workshops – longevity workshop, neuro workshop, crypto AI workshop, nano workshop, space workshop – with a session on new R&D/DeSci funding technologies for advancing the respective area.