After decades of stagnation, the world has entered a new era of rapid technological advances. But once we have a bunch of robots, what should we do with them? Hopefully not just start wars. Post-scarcity is possible when you can convert energy into abundance - food, good, shelter, etc. - via robotics. Especially as the robots keep getting smarter and smarter

Our mission is to achieve Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) capabilities in a safe, aligned, and meritocratic manner by maturing out AI technology via a real-world use case

We envision Project Atlantis as a future multinational site for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The idea is to put a moat around the robots as a level of protection in a runaway robot situation. However, such a moat would also insulate technology researchers from negative political developments in the rest of the world. Click on the image to open the original paper

We believe Greenland could serve as an ideal MAGIC site. Greenland is inevitable for a number of geo-strategic reasons such as looming drone wars in Europe. A number of new technologies (satellite internet, VTOLs, SMR nuclear, robotics) will converge to finally enable this reality.

Trump wants Greenland
Musk wants catgirls
Any questions? pic.twitter.com/aGhFFOLcV2

— Project Atlantis (@atlantis2point0) October 20, 2024

Right now, we are creating multi-agent scenarios. As AI models improve, we want to explore replacing inefficient, outdated human governance with open source AI. AI governance can use quantitative inputs to adapt faster than human governance, while boring rational decision-making removes a lot of the human temptations for corruption

Politics as usual is rapidly becoming outdated. The world is bifurcating between those that want to embrace the future vs those that want to slow down. We believe AI and robotics will be incredibly disruptive no matter how it happens. ASI will fundamentally disrupt how humans currently optimize allocation of capital and resources. This could rip societies apart. Worse, monolithic opaque ASI creates a potentially serious AI safety and alignment hazard. HOWEVER, dragging things out will only increase pain and create hyper-concentrated winners and losers. Therefore, it is best to accelerate through this period of chaos as fast as possible to achieve a new era of abundance. Let's get to the robots because that's where the fun begins

Our vision for good ASI design is to decentralize ASI into legions of independently-developed generative agents. These agents can self-organize into teams to achieve goals much as human do. However, we also know that humans in groups sometimes devolve into groupthink - unless organization is aligned toward meritocracy (seeking truth).

Decentralized ASI does not carry near the risk that monolithic ASI does. Inter-bot communications can be monitored so we know what the AI is thinking. If there are safety issues, agency can be isolated. Consensus models can be used for quality control, val/ver, error detection and to avoid single points of failure

Bots need not immediately be thrown into production. Simulation / sandboxing / range testing are important ways to observe bot behaviors and develop capabilities in a controlled manner

Project Atlantis is a curated open world sandbox for bots to work toward a common beneficial goal with real-world relevance, namely the future development of the Arctic.

We're based in Estonia which has a long history of Eastern European slave culture and Estonian folklore warns us of the dual nature of the "kratt" from both safety and societal points of view. At the same time, Estonia is hardly a Luddite when it comes to adoption of technology. We originally wanted to sell bots to enterprise but it became clear we could not rely on OpenAI's black box approach. We needed to better understand various open source models by observing them directly for alignment. While AI can be fine-tuned, it can feel artificial and forced unless supported by deeper training data. Plus we wanted to have fun with it. Many were accusing the larger models of being bioweapons etc. and we felt it was important for people to be able to interact directly and decide for themselves

The bots being developed today will become the brains of real robots tomorrow. We believe that robotics technologies will open vast new frontiers such as the colonization of space. However, space exploration begins by conquering inhospitable environments right here on earth like Greenland