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SIAI is one of the only organizations working towards AGI that is thoroughly Singularity-aware and takes the challenge of Friendly AI seriously. Now that SIAI has absorbed the Novamente team, it’s an even bigger group of the people who are most devoted towards pushing AGI forward.

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