Consent based motivational AGI network

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Consent based motivational AGI network

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2.7

Overview

Existing centralized AGI motivational systems risk bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and AI misalignment. More scalable, efficient, and distributed approaches for real-time motivational systems are needed. The Sociocratic Motivational Network uses decentralized nodes to manage AGI’s ethical components. Nodes evaluate situations, collaborate, and reach consensus for balanced, ethical decision-making.

RFP Guidelines

Develop a framework for AGI motivation systems

Complete & Awarded
  • Type SingularityNET RFP
  • Total RFP Funding $40,000 USD
  • Proposals 12
  • Awarded Projects 2
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SingularityNET
Aug. 13, 2024

Develop a modular and extensible framework for integrating various motivational systems into AGI architectures, supporting both human-like and alien digital intelligences. This could be done as a highly detailed and precise specification, or as a relatively simple software prototype with suggestions for generalization and extension.

Proposal Description

Company Name (if applicable)

Photrek

Project details

Photrek proposes an AGI sociocratical motivational network system designed to improve scalability and efficiency of AGI motivational Hyperson systems, leveraging our expertise in decentralized governance and AI. The Photrek team has proven experience in machine learning, AI development, and risk intelligence. The team is actively involved in the SingularityNET community, contributing to both AI and governance development. Photrek will draw upon both its risk intelligence and its governance expertise to deliver a sociocratic AGI motivational network.


Distributed Nodes

Each node within the system specializes in managing a specific ethical or motivational drive, such as fairness, safety, or utility. Nodes operate autonomously but maintain constant communication to share evaluations and adjust the AGI’s priorities based on real-time data. This distributed approach ensures a more resilient network, incorporating redundancy to prevent single points of failure and bolster overall robustness. The decentralized structure allows nodes to adapt dynamically to changing conditions, promoting balanced decision-making that aligns with diverse ethical principles.

Sociocratic Consensus Mechanism

The framework employs a sociocratic consensus protocol to govern motivational adjustments. This approach ensures that no single node dominates the decision-making process, enabling equitable outcomes across all nodes. The consensus mechanism facilitates real-time adaptations, aligning motivational priorities with pre-programmed ethical rules and evolving environmental inputs. The system’s adaptive feedback loops allow nodes to continuously refine their motivational outputs, maintaining alignment with both immediate contexts and long-term ethical goals.

Decentralized Processing

The framework is designed for distributed architectures like Hyperon, enabling efficient parallel operations across nodes. This architecture enhances scalability, reduces latency, and optimizes the use of computational resources. Within Hyperon, nodes manage distinct motivational drives, leveraging the platform’s distributed network capabilities. PRIMUS further enhances the decision-making process by integrating distributed cognitive modules that incorporate both motivational and ethical considerations in real time. MeTTa plays a crucial role in orchestrating communication among nodes, facilitating collaborative adjustments that respond to dynamic environmental conditions and ethical guidelines. It ensures the coordination of motivational shifts based on consensus, maintaining coherence across the network.

Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) Alignment

The network includes mechanisms for human oversight, enabling corrective interventions when needed. Human operators can reconfigure ethical nodes to address misalignment or unintended consequences, ensuring the AGI’s behavior remains aligned with evolving human values and ethical standards. This human-in-the-loop component supports continuous alignment and enhances transparency and accountability. It allows for auditing of node decisions, reinforcing trust in the AGI’s ethical behavior while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to changing ethical requirements.

Strategic Benefits 

The AGI Sociocratic Motivational Network System offers several strategic advantages. It improves decision quality by distributing ethical and motivational responsibilities across nodes, ensuring a consensus-driven approach that minimizes bias and enhances integrity. The system’s decentralized design allows seamless scalability, enabling adaptation to complex tasks and environments. This architecture also supports real-time adjustments that align AGI behavior with evolving human values, fostering a cooperative relationship between humans and AGI. By integrating robust redundancy and transparency, the system ensures resilient, transparent, and trustworthy decision-making, positioning it as a key innovation in AGI governance.

Impact

The Distributed Ethical-Motivational Network has the potential to significantly enhance AGI development by creating a more ethical, transparent, and scalable motivational system. This framework supports real-time, consensus-driven decision-making and aligns AGI behavior with evolving human values. Below is a breakdown of the key benefits:

Empowering AGI Systems:

•Informed Decision-Making: By distributing ethical and motivational responsibilities across decentralized nodes, the framework ensures well-rounded, data-driven decisions that are both responsive and aligned with human values. The sociocratic consensus protocol allows AGI systems to adapt to dynamic conditions while maintaining ethical coherence.

•Improved Efficiency: Decentralized processing enhances the speed and scalability of motivational adjustments, reducing latency and allowing AGI systems to operate efficiently, even in complex, rapidly changing environments. This efficiency translates to faster responses and more balanced decision-making, promoting robust AGI performance.

•Enhanced Collaboration: The distributed nature of the system fosters greater inter-node collaboration, mirroring human cooperative behavior. This collaborative process ensures that all motivational nodes work together, leading to more balanced and ethically aligned AGI behavior that can better respond to diverse contexts.

Strengthening AGI Governance:

•Trust and Transparency: The consensus-based model ensures clear, accountable AGI behavior, building confidence among developers, users, and stakeholders. The Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) component ensures that humans can oversee, correct, and adapt AGI decisions when necessary.

•Resilient Operations: By using distributed nodes, the network minimizes biases and single points of failure, making AGI systems more robust. This redundancy ensures ethical principles are consistently maintained, even in challenging scenarios.

•Ethical Adaptability: Continuous feedback loops allow for real-time ethical recalibrations, aligning AGI behavior with human values and societal norms. The HITL mechanism adds an extra layer of oversight, enabling swift adjustments to prevent misalignment or unintended outcomes.

Broadening Accessibility:

•Seamless Integration: The network’s decentralized design simplifies the incorporation of motivational systems across various AGI applications. This reduces barriers for developers and researchers, making it easier to implement ethical components in a wide range of use cases.

•Knowledge Sharing: As the network evolves, it provides valuable insights into ethical decision-making patterns, motivational dynamics, and effective consensus-building. This knowledge can guide future AI research and governance, setting benchmarks for ethical AI deployment.

Capability & Feasibility

Photrek is a team with a proven track record in machine learning, AI development, and risk intelligence. We are in the process of successfully implementing the Project Catalyst Fund 11 proposal 1100261 Sociocratic dReps: A Representation Framework for Democratic Pluralism , which has further strengthened our expertise in decentralized governance structures and dRep processes.

Open Source Licensing

GNU GPL - GNU General Public License

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  • Total Milestones

    4

  • Total Budget

    $30,000 USD

  • Last Updated

    3 Dec 2024

Milestone 1 - Requirements Principles and Initial Design

Description

In the first milestone the project team will define the technical and functional requirements for the Sociocratic Motivational Network alongside establishing key ethical principles such as fairness utility transparency sustainability and social impact. A collaborative framework draft will be developed and shared with the SingularityNET community for feedback. This phase ensures alignment between technical goals and community values incorporating diverse inputs to refine the project direction. The milestone will culminate in a finalized requirements document and principles framework based on community insights.

Deliverables

- A detailed requirements document outlining technical ethical and functional goals. - A framework draft defining the motivational network node principles. Some examples may include: -- Fairness: The system must ensure equitable treatment across all motivational nodes and decisions. -- Utility: Decisions should maximize positive outcomes for the majority. -- Sustainability: System operations should prioritize energy efficiency and resource minimization. -- Social Impact: Align decisions with societal norms and promote positive community development. - Community feedback from SingularityNET stakeholders on the initial proposal.

Budget

$6,000 USD

Success Criterion

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Milestone 2 - Prototype Development and Community Validation

Description

This milestone focuses on developing a functional prototype of a motivational node capable of autonomous decision-making and communication within a decentralized system. The prototype will be tested in controlled scenarios to validate adherence to ethical principles and operational goals. Community feedback sessions will provide critical insights into usability alignment and areas for improvement. By the end of this milestone the prototype will be refined and prepared for integration into the broader system.

Deliverables

A functional prototype of a single motivational node that operates under predefined principles.

Budget

$9,000 USD

Success Criterion

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Milestone 3 - Full System Integration and Ethical Testing

Description

During this phase the project team will integrate multiple motivational nodes into a cohesive system governed by sociocratic consensus protocols. The integrated system will be tested against a variety of ethical scenarios such as balancing fairness and utility or prioritizing sustainability over immediate benefit. Each scenario will demonstrate the system’s ability to dynamically adapt its decisions while adhering to the defined principles. The milestone will conclude with a detailed testing report and live demonstrations for community to validate the system’s alignment with project goals.

Deliverables

- Fully integrated system with multiple nodes operating collaboratively under sociocratic consensus protocols. - Ethical test cases demonstrating alignment with principles.

Budget

$9,000 USD

Success Criterion

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Milestone 4 - Final Testing HITL Integration and Close-Out

Description

In the final milestone the fully integrated system will undergo extensive testing including the validation of Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) mechanisms to ensure adaptability and oversight in critical decision-making scenarios. A community workshop will present the final system gather feedback and outline opportunities for future improvements. The milestone will wrap up with a comprehensive project report summarizing outcomes lessons learned and potential next steps alongside stakeholder approval of the final deliverables.

Deliverables

- Fully tested system with Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) mechanisms ensuring adaptability to evolving principles. - Community workshop to present findings gather final feedback and outline next steps.

Budget

$6,000 USD

Success Criterion

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Expert Ratings

Reviews & Ratings

Group Expert Rating (Final)

Overall

2.7

  • Compliance with RFP requirements 2.8
  • Solution details and team expertise 3.0
  • Value for money 3.0
  • Expert Review 1

    Overall

    1.0

    • Compliance with RFP requirements 1.0
    • Solution details and team expertise 1.0
    • Value for money 0.0
    Distributed Motivation System

    This approach could lead to multiple systems collaborating and synching their efforts in a distributed manner, which is more like a form of coordination and communication rather than motivation of an agent. It is hence unable to explain motivation of single agent which is so crucial for PRIMUS and Experiential Learners in general. This project misses the RFP topic and will not lead to a formalization of motivation or working prototype that could drive learning agents.

  • Expert Review 2

    Overall

    4.0

    • Compliance with RFP requirements 4.0
    • Solution details and team expertise 5.0
    • Value for money 0.0
    It's a credible proposal to integrate an ethics oriented Human In the Loop decision/motivation framework into Hyperon

    This doesn't address the issue of making an overall motivational framework for AGI, but it does split off the problem of making a human-in-the-loop, ethics oriented motivational component in a comprehensible and clear way, and defines the latter nicely

  • Expert Review 3

    Overall

    4.0

    • Compliance with RFP requirements 4.0
    • Solution details and team expertise 4.0
    • Value for money 0.0

    Good approach integrating motivational drives with ethical frameworks via decentralization. While this is an excellent idea, the project seems weak in terms of understanding motivational drives, while strong in terms of its ethical framework. While the proposal dives into a human-in-the loop structure "to address misalignment or unintended consequences", for example, yet it never goes into details of psychological theories of motivation.

  • Expert Review 4

    Overall

    3.0

    • Compliance with RFP requirements 2.0
    • Solution details and team expertise 2.0
    • Value for money 2.0
    Does not address the Call

    The proposal does not address the development of a motivational framework (for AGI "alien intelligence", etc) but rather a decentralized ethical sociocratic governance framework (which, btw, is also itself not clearly presented!)... It is unclear what the intent of the proposers is with statements like "distributing ethical and motivational responsibilities across nodes" or "consensus-driven motivational approach". No clear framework for encoding intrinsic motivational drive for intent nor extrinsic motivational paradigms are mentioned. The milestones and deliverables appear taken from a halucinatory LLM - I do not understand what will be delivered for the respective Call. So this is a clear "reject" IMHO.

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