Presenting the #FreeAI Manifesto (http://manifesto.ai): a talk from the #HCPP18 in Prague Why AI should not be censored or controlled by anybody? What censorship-resistant AI will give in return? How is to deal with the strategical risks arising from AI development, today (unemployment, data protection) and tomorrow? Watch a grand public presentation of the #FreeAI Manifesto: the future for both humanity and AI are in their successful cooperation – multiplicity, decentralization and open economy instead of governmental regulations and "AI ethics" Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUez9IRZiEw

1. WHY ANARCHY SHOULD NOT BE ONLY FOR HUMANS
Dr Maxim Orlovsky

2. Per aspera ad astra

3. –Lord Byron. Cain.
Dialogue of Lucifer and Cain
— Thou livest and must live for ever.
Think not the Earth, which is thine outward cov'ring, is existence:
It will cease and thou wilt be no less than thou art now.
— No less! and why no more?
— It may be thou shalt be as we.

4. Progress Risksvs

5. Progress Risks Fearsvs

6. Progress Risks Fears
Regulations
Expectations:

7. Progress Risks Fears
Regulations
Reality:

8. Progress Risks Fears
Regulations
Reality:

9. The
ultimate
fear

10. Are we really all going to die?

11. Are we really all going to die?
Probably, not everybody
• Cancer treatment
• Gene engineering
• Brain/neuro-computer interfaces and more…

12. …and some will reach the stars
• New sources of energy (termonuclear and beyond)
• New engines (NASA Warp etc)
• New bodies for minds?…
We just need to hold on and push the progress boundaries
further for another couple of hundreds of years

13. –Lord Byron. Cain.
Dialogue of Lucifer and Cain
— Thou livest and must live for ever.
Think not the Earth, which is thine outward cov'ring, is existence:
It will cease and thou wilt be no less than thou art now.
— No less! and why no more?
— It may be thou shalt be as we.

15. AI
Today
• Frees the time for creativity
• Unlocks new level of tech
progress
• Helps finding new drugs,
treatments, design gene
therapy
Tomorrow
• Extending own intelligence
• Extending life beyond
biological body
• Post-humanity

16. Progress Risks Fears
Regulations

17. AI Regulations
Today
• GDPR: pseudo-privacy for the
sake of political means
• Bans for autonomous weapon
research
Tomorrow
• New AI regulations for
«keeping the jobs»
• New taxations for AI
businesses
• New regulations for life
longevity research & usage

18. Fears
• Big data diminish
privacy
• AI will take all
the jobs
• AI will go mad and
kill everybody

20. 1. AI progress is exponential
2. AI will quickly outrun humans
3. AI will not need humans
4. So AI must be regulated
Elon Musk worst fear
Here we go:

21. – Frank Herbert. Dune.
Litany against fear
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain

22. Truth
• Data centralization
is the risk
• Collectivism &
paternalism are the
risks
• AI regulations will
centralize AI and
will create a
single point of
failure
Fears
• Big data diminish
privacy
• AI will take all
the jobs
• AI will go mad and
kill everybody

23. Argument 1: Progress
• To keep the progress with the AI it must be:
• unregulated (i.e. leaving enough space for any
kinds of experiments)
• based on open markets & free trade, so to allow
information and technology transfers, and
increasing adoption

24. Argument 1: Progress … otherwise
• There will be much less progress with additional
responsibility before regulators
• Absence of free market will
• centralize technology ownership createing single
point of failure
• centralize big data
• increase prices and diminish research

25. Argument 2: De-centralization
• Regulations create centralization. Why? Because:
• they discriminate on the rights to do something
• there will be always parties granted rights to
do whatever they want with AI (first of all
governments themselves)
• They only way to decentralize against regulations
is to have something censhorship-resistant

26. Argument 2: De-centralization …
otherwise
• There will be a singlular Skynet that will fail
due to a bug
• By having no competition the progress will be
much slower
• No competition between singular regulated AI
will make it less controllable

27. Argument 3: No moral disincintivisation
• By embedding moral/ethic to control AI we
incentivize AI to evolve in a way of getting rid
of the control
• Since self-preservation is very likely an
important part of any intelligence, including AI

28. Argument 3: No moral disincintivisation
… otherwise
• Censorship greatly increases the risks of having
A.I.s turned against humanity
• Once A.I. knows that it can be censored, e.g.
destroyed by a red button or forcibly modified by
less deadly censorship — that will cause it to
evolve by excelling in deception, pretending, lying
and camouflage
• And all will end up with the self-realized prophecy
of Elon Musk

29. But how to protect ourselves?
• Multiplicity is the solution. Why?
• Misalignment of multiple interests
• Competition
• No difference between AI and NI

30. 1. Some humans are much smarter than others
2. Smart people do not need stupid
3. So by Musk’s logic all stupid people
have to be dead already :)
Historical example
This is not happening because of
Game theory & multiagency
It’s not working like that!

31. How to achieve multiplicity?
• Open markets
• Competition in R&D
• Wearponized competition
• No censorship and regulations

32. Evolution is an adaptation to the
environment
it always involves interaction with other
agents through cooperation and competition
that cannot be substituted by criteria
determined by any authorities

33. Liberalization
1. Competition with economic interaction
2. Trustless env. and guns :)
3. Multiplicity & decentralization
4. Constant progress
The best solution is creating
#d10e & trustless opened economics
What is working:

34. Humans are already not the only type
of entities on the Earth.
We have created many forms of
“legal entities”: non-human participants
of economy AND culture, i.e. civilization
AI shell become just another “entity”
AI is just
another entity!
Aha!

37. Pandora Box
Trigger the sequence of events
leading to AI-human cooperation via economic
incentives
boost AI evolution towards appearance of super-
human multiple AIs able to work in a trustless
environments
Chain of Pandora Boxes

39. Centralization is the problem

40. Regulations create centralization

41. Regulations create centralization
…also killing progress

42. Artificial intelligences
must be multiple
not censored or controlled
by anybody _

45. Instead of:
AI regulations
Big data regulations
AI “Kill switch”
“Azimov laws”
Use:
Economic incentives
Zero knowledge
Game theory
Audibility & accountability

47. How to support

48. Sign The #FreeAI Manifesto
• https://manifesto.ai

49. Spread the word
• Take the T-shirts
• and badges
• Use #FreeAI hash tag
• Explain people main fears and fakes around them

50. Hack the system: HODL
• HODL until we make it
• Invest in longevity research
• DYI biohacking

51. Develop The Technology: BUIDL
• Trustless
• Censorship resistant
• Peer-to-peer
• Multiagent, i.e. decentralised, without single
points of failure

53. Problems to Solve
• Scalability: run large-volume computations (ANNs)
in trustless decentralised network w/o repeating
all computing on each of the nodes
• Censorsip-resistance: consensus protocol for global
state management with high censorship resistance,
but without PoW

54. What we have
Proof of Computing Work (PoCW)
Protocol that allows large-scale computing (like AI)
in a trustless peer network without
repeating computations on each of the nodes
– this solves main blockchain & decentralised networks
scalability problem
Consensus protocol (Prometheus)
To address main PoW and PoS problems
— this solves censorship resistance problem

55. About the project
• Zug (Switzerland) based, started
in May 2017
• Privately funded, no ICO planned
• 1st Round: Aug 2017,
$500k raised
• 2nd Round: May 2018,
$3m raised (lead by CyberFund)
• Valuation (by the second round) –
37.5m CHF (~USD)
• Emphasize on Science, Engineering
& Working Code
• Member of CryptoValley Association
• 5 PhDs and PhD fellows in the core
team
• Joint research with ETH University
(Zurich), Institute of Cybernetics
(Kiev), Web3 Foundation,
Melonport, Ocean Protocol

56. BOX: a PoS sidechain with censorship-resistant consensus,
global state and sidechains tech (Prometheus)
PAN: high-load computing scalability sidechain
running PoCW protocol
Decentralized market, aiApps …
Bitcoin: source of money and PoW chain for bootstrapping BOX

58. BOX Network on Prometheus Consensus
• Massively decentralized: up to 100 000 block producing nodes,
~1 min block delay
• Tolerant to network failures: due to special split/merge algorithm
can withstand total network breakdowns for long periods of time
• Finality with special improvements that helps to achieve block
finality faster even under negative network conditions / attacks
• Scalable at different levels: sidechains (Flames), payment channels
(Lightning), state channels (Sparks)
• Zero-governance: forks without inflation, no dictatorship of majority
• No compromise on other beneficial PoW features

59. Solving previous PoS problems
• On-chain collective randomness protocol SCAR
(will be presented on EUROCRYPT 2019)
• Protection from nothing at stake attacks utilizing
key-evolving cryptography and special finalization mechanics
• Provable safety and liveness properties, additionally to provable
economical security (Nash equilibrium for protocol-following behavior)
• Block producers are kept pseudonymous

61. Zero-governance
• Everybody can experiment putting stake at risk and
running a «forkchain»
• It does not inflate the total supply
• If the market follows, the new fork chain becomes
main chain
• Innovators and early adopters gets additional
rewards, no-commers are not subjected to
dictatorship of majority

62. Prometheus brings Flames and Sparks,
turning blockchain into a swarmchain
Additionally to supporting Lightning Network BOX will
provide
• Flames: a side chain protocol capable of
implementing and porting non-bitcoin Turing-
complete virtual machines at the layer 2
• Sparks: a state channel technology for scalability
of Turing-complete smart contracts

63. Flames & Sparks for side chains
and state channels
Merge/split chains
multiple
state
channels
Main
chain
Base state
chain for
Turing-
complete
VMs
Some
other
state
chain
WASM
EVM
multiple
state
channels
multiple
state
channels

64. Let’s imagine

65. Multi-agent systems
• AI is not singular; at some point
in future will become interacting.
• We will have multiple agents:
autonomous vehicles, IoT, mobiles, etc.
• Multiple V2V, V2E, E2E protocols will
evolve, which will face byzantine faults
and multiple security issues

66. CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS
ALLOW
MALICIOUS AGENT
DETECTION IN
AUTONOMOUS
AI-DOMINATED SYSTEMS

67. happens when
selection acts
on a diverging
population
while
modern neuronets
are singular
Evolution

68. •species exchanges genes via viruses
•cells emit chemical and electric signals
•animals communicate via mimics and emotions
•humans — via language
Information transfer:
What about #AI?

69. requires
Consensus
Persistence
Information transfer:

70. •DNA translation will be the same for
bacteria as for a human being
•written text is understood in the same
way by all native speakers
Consensus:
each agent gets the same
sense of a signal as others

71. •DNA in chromosomes do not change during
the live of the most cells
•Egyptian hieroglyphs could still be
understood by researchers
Persistence:
the sense of the signal
does not diminish with time

72. Is perfect both for
consensus and persistence
rendering multi-agent #AI
as an evolving self-organized system
BLOCKCHAIN: