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Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park

Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park

Joon Sung Park, founder and CEO of Simile and creator of Stanford's "Smallville" generative agents study, explains how Simile is building the "GPU of intelligence" to simulate human society, diverging from frontier models that act as the "CPU of intelligence." He details Simile's approach of grounding simulations with real human behavioral data, its diverse corporate applications, and its long-term vision to create a "CERN of human society" to solve fundamental societal challenges.

949: Why AI Keeps Failing Society, with Stanford professor — with Alex “Sandy” Pentland

949: Why AI Keeps Failing Society, with Stanford professor — with Alex “Sandy” Pentland

Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland discusses his new book, *Shared Wisdom*, and the critical risks AI poses to society. He draws parallels between the AI-driven collapse of the Soviet Union and today's challenges, arguing that AI systems fail due to poor models of society, not poor algorithms. Pentland introduces solutions like 'loyal agents' that serve individuals, 'data unions' to rebalance power, and new governance models based on open audit trails to ensure AI operates fairly and safely on a global scale.