Envisioning a Positive Future with AGI
Important Update:
This event has been rescheduled to Thursday, January 23 2025.
Join the Freedom Series author, Jad Tarifi, Ph.D., CEO & Co-founder of Integral AI, for an insightful talk exploring how AI can unlock the full potential of humanity. Following the talk, engage in an open-ended discussion inspired by The Rise of Superintelligence, the first volume of the Freedom Series, a guidebook for human emancipation in the age of AGI.
📘 Special Giveaway: Ask a question during the event and receive a complimentary copy of The Rise of Superintelligence!
🍹 Refreshments Provided: Enjoy snacks and drinks while connecting with fellow attendees.
🌍 Language: The event will be held in English, with auto-translation to Japanese displayed on-screen for inclusivity.
💡 What You Will Gain:
A deeper understanding of AGI’s potential to amplify human capability, going beyond automation to enhance creativity, ethical reasoning, and problem-solving.
Tools to think critically about how superintelligent systems can align with humanity’s highest ideals, with innovative concepts like the Alignment Economy inspiring new frameworks for designing and interacting with AGI.
A broadened perspective on freedom, agency, and flourishing in a world shaped by superintelligence, helping you rethink empowerment in the post-AGI world.
👤 Who Should Attend: Whether you’re an AI enthusiast, a tech professional, an entrepreneur, a researcher, or simply someone who cares deeply about the future of society, this conversation will inspire and challenge you.
About Jad Tarifi
Jad Tarifi, Ph.D., is an AGI expert and the CEO & Co-founder of Integral AI, where he is driving industry-changing breakthroughs in scalable, energy-efficient AGI to bring humanity closer towards superintelligence.
With over 20 years of experience, he has dedicated much of his career to pioneering approaches to AGI. Before founding Integral AI, Jad spent nearly a decade at Google AI, where he founded and led its first Generative AI team and spearheaded research on learning from limited data. He holds a Ph.D. in AI, with a dissertation focusing on brain-inspired and mathematically rigorous theories of intelligence, and an M.S. in Quantum Computing.
Jad is also the author of the Freedom Series, a four-volume guidebook that explores the future of AI, human potential, and societal transformation in the age of AGI. The series presents a hopeful yet pragmatic vision for aligning AI with humanity’s highest ideals, detailing the technical path to building AGI, while offering readers a new worldview and practical tools for flourishing in a world shaped by superintelligence.
Born in Lebanon, educated and working in the US, and now based in Japan, Jad brings a deeply human and universal perspective to his mission of advancing AGI for the benefit of all.