Private personal AI. Reversing cellular age. Brain-computer interfaces. Universal fabricators. Funding human agency. New life on Mars. Whether AI can be conscious, and whether it matters. Nov 13-15, Vision Weekend returns to San Francisco! Three days of expert talks, curated 1-on-1s, tech demos, a $10K pitch grant, and our main 40th anniversary celebration in the US. Speakers include: • Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI Foundation) • Matthew MacDougall (Neuralink) • Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol) • Max Hodak (Science Corporation) • Matthew Botvinick (Anthropic) • Nan Ransohoff (Frontier Climate) • Séb Krier (Google DeepMind) • Seemay Chou (Astera Institute) • Robin Hanson (George Mason University) • Alex Gladstein (Human Rights Foundation) + many more. Full lineup in thread. Join us across iconic Bay Area locations, including Lighthaven, @internetarchive, USS Hornet aircraft carrier, and lab tours at @E11BIO, @LongshotSpace, @calwave_energy, @DolphinLabs, @ScienceCorp_ , plus a cypherpunk party at our AI node. Get tickets before prices increase Oct 1. Link in thread.

New paper: Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents We gave AI agents personal context to help them make better recommendations. In one example, the agent picked a $601 flight over a $91 one, when asked to find the cheapest one, after reading irrelevant financial emails. Why does this happen? 🧵