Kyrtin Atreides, AGI Laboratory

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Kyrtin is COO and a leading researcher at AGI Laboratory, presently focused on bringing the first scalable human-like intelligent systems to commercial deployment in 2023, and Series A funding to accelerate engineering. Kyrtin has particularly focused on topics of ethics, cognitive bias, real-world impact and strategy, and the necessary technical and architectural methods and modifications for such purposes.

Cognitive bias: The elephant in every room

Across government offices, tech company board rooms and the homes of every individual, there is an elephant in every room. The English idiom is in this case a reference to the same “elephant” described in Jonathan Haidt’s social psychology work, where the conscious and subconscious human mind are described as the “elephant and the rider.” What this means is that in every room where a human is present, there is also an elephant: That human’s subconscious.

Kyrtin Atreides, AGI Laboratory