Dark Intelligence

One-Day Cognitive Workshop | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Key performance indicators (KPIs)

• Elucidation of (a) human intelligence, (b) artificial intelligence (AI), and (c) the difference between them.
• Improved efficacy developing AI systems insofar as program success correlates with the clarification of the human phenomena specified for encoding.

Task

Questions about AI — regardless its iteration, current or envisaged — are not principally about the technology. More fundamentally, they express a primordial impulse to understand the essential meaning of human intelligence within the context of the human “to be.” Although the shortage correlated with the motivation is a human one, or, more precisely, existential or ontological, its effects are not isolated in the human person. They also risk biasing AI development. Confusion about the essential meaning of human intelligence risks unconsciously swaying efforts to encode its basic constituents into suboptimal trajectories.

Response

The workshoip lays out the case to supersede the “artificial intelligence” sobriquet with “dark intelligence” to mitigate apparent presuppositions belying the technology and clarify the way AI is thought. The workshop:

1. Reduces AI to its basic statistical processes.
2. Exhibits the essential meaning of human intelligence — which is inceptually affiliated with “light” (φῶς), “visibility” (φαίνω), and “saying” (φήμη) — over against core AI processes.
3. Discerns the interpretive constraints associated with thinking AI and a hypothesized “singularity” (AI Boltzmann Brain) as allowed by the statistical formulation of entropy (S = k ln W).
4. Posits the operational effects of supplanting the “AI” moniker.

Method

Best teaching practices are employed. They include discovery sessions, learning exercises, knowledge checks, and a rigorous reduction of human phenomena and core concepts. The vector subscribes to the teaching methods ordained by the . The CFD-IC is an integration of the Army Basic Instructor Course (ABIC), Small Group Instructor Training Course (SGITC), and Faculty Development Program Phase 1 (FDP1). It is the “gold standard” of adult learning. Dr. Trujillo received his 108-hour CFD-IC certification in 2019.

Sigetic CEO/CTO

Joaquin Trujillo is a former CIA Operations Officer and holds a PhD in Sociology from Florida International University (FIU). His CIA service comprised tours in Europe, the Middle East, and one combat zone, as well as designations as Acting Chief of Station (ACOS) and Acting Chief of Base (ACOB). Dr. Trujillo regularly coaches US military and Special Forces in the team, leadership, communicative, and high reliability processes ingredient to successful intelligence and psychological operations during war and evaluates their performance against those variables. His methodological expertise — as evinced by his 30-plus peer reviewed publications — comprises phenomenology, cybernetics, cognitive analysis, existential psychotherapy, and ethnography. His scientific work renders basic human phenomena in advanced technologies, including AI, and high risk systems.

Contact Information and Cancellation Policy

Sigetic is a cognitive operations firm based in Houston, TX. For details see . Please send queries to Sigetic CEO/CTO — Joaquin Trujillo PhD — at .

The exact venue address is provided upon registration.

Public metered street parking is available. A paid private parking garage is also available. The venue is accessible by public transportation.

Refereshments and snacks are served. BREAKS ARE ONLY 5-10 MINUTES. NO LUNCH IS PROVIDED AND THERE IS NO LUNCH BREAK.

Full refunds for registration MINUS EVENTBRITE SERVICING AND PROCESSING FEES are available for cancellations executed up to two (2) before the scheduled course start date and time. Cancellations less than two (2) days before the course start date and time are not refundable.