Christine Peterson
Christine Peterson is Co-founder and Senior Fellow of Foresight Institute. She lectures and writes about nanotechnology, AI, and longevity, working as a connector to further key projects. She is co-author of Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution (Morrow, also free online), Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press, also free online), and Gaming the Future (Foresight Institute, also free on Substack). She advises the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Global Healthspan Policy Institute, Ludlow Institute, Animal Pain Research Institute, National Space Society, biotech Ligandal, and serves as Board Observer at California Institute for Machine Consciousness. She coined the term ‘open source software.’ She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from MIT.
Session
What might beneficial multipolar AI futures look like? Which factors shape them? How can we build for them? We’ll discuss potential developmental paths for AI, how open source, decentralized training, the agent economy, and offense defense dynamics shape them, and how we can prepare civilization to nudge AI trajectories toward Paretotopian futures.
Panelists include:
Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
Mark S. Miller, Agoric
Max Langenkamp, SecureDNA
Abhinav Singh, Normalyze
*Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute