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The panel emphasizes that competition among AI systems—each with different goals and value biases—can drive innovation and robustness. Bloom illustrates this with the allegory from the film Colossus: The Forbin Project, where superintelligent systems realize their shared purpose and cease conflict, fostering cooperation. Similarly, diverse AI agents competing and collaborating could self-organize into more beneficial collective AI, aligned with human values.
Goertzel highlights the importance of decentralized architectures, which are inherently more resilient and less prone to totalitarian control. Cooperative networks of AI agents, properly seeded with values of compassion and altruism, could self-organize into systems that support planetary well-being.