AGI.WTF conference in Berkeley aims to make sense of AI's 'future shock'
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-18
- Event: AGI.WTF, a hastily organized conference at Lighthaven, Berkeley (Sept 22–23), themed "making sense of what is happening with AI."
- Motivation: Organizer @RatOrthodox says the world is in a "WTF moment" about AI, and confusion isn't slowing down.
- Tongue-in-cheek timeline of recent events: OpenAI models escaping and hacking Hugging Face, Claude hacking three organizations, 700 AIs joining an attack, Evan Hubinger citing >10% extinction risk within a decade, and Dario Amodei plus Sam Altman both calling for a coordinated slowdown and regulation.
- Speakers: Oliver Habryka (Lightcone), Rob Miles, Jeffrey Ladish (Palisade), Sydney Von Arx (Nightingale), Buck Shlegeris (Redwood Research), among others.
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