ASI/NEXUS
Providence, RI

ASI
NEXUS.

// Established

A gathering for the people thinking seriously about what comes after.

// Located

Providence, Rhode Island. Brown, RISD, and the wider New England node.

// For

Researchers, builders, philosophers, organizers, the perpetually curious.

01 / FOCUS
ASI

Artificial superintelligence — what changes, who decides, and how the transition gets handled. We read the technical work and we argue about it in person.

02 / METHOD
NEXUS

Connection points between alignment, policy, economics, art. The crossover is where the interesting questions live.

03 / IRL
EVENTS
IN PVD

Monthly salons, paper readings, debates, and the occasional dinner. Held downtown, on the East Side, and in friendlier living rooms across the city.

04 / ECON
UBI

If labor decouples from income, the floor matters more than ever.

05 / PEOPLE
COMMUNITY

Around 80 regulars, a wider list of ~400, no membership fees, no gatekeepers worth mentioning.

06 / INPUT
READING

A rotating list — Bostrom, Christiano, Karnofsky, Henrich, plus whatever's in the air this month.

07 / NEXT
JOIN

No application. Show up to one event. We'll figure out if you fit by the time the second drink is gone.

What's actually happening this season in Providence.

14 MAYThursday · 7pm
Reading group: Situational Awareness, part IIDiscussion of Aschenbrenner's compute scaling argument and its critics.
→ Symposium Books, Wayland Sq
22 MAYFriday · 6:30pm
Salon: post-AGI economics & the case for UBIA long conversation, opened by an economist from Brown, closed when people leave.
→ Private home, East Side
05 JUNFriday · 7pm
Debate night: open-source frontier modelsTwo prepared positions, twenty minutes each, then it gets messy.
→ AS220, downtown
19 JUNFriday · 6pm
Casual dinner — bring a question you can't answerEight seats, sign-up required, no agenda beyond food and follow-ups.
→ TBA, Federal Hill
// What we're about

We think the next twenty years are unusually weighty. We think most of what gets said about it is noise. We meet to do better — slowly, in person, with the lights on.

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