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In 2024, at Encultured we're shifting our attention toward healthcare applications of AI. Originally, when Encultured was founded as a gaming-oriented AI research company, our immediate goal was to make research progress on human–AI interaction that would ultimately benefit humanity well beyond the entertainment sector. Since then, we've considered healthcare as a likely next step for us after gaming. In fact, our founding 5-year business plan proposed a pivot into the healthcare sector in 2027. Now, in 2024, we believe we should make this transition earlier than expected, for a few reasons: ...

Eventually, we want every safety and alignment researcher in the world to be able to test their solution ideas on our platform. This will not only yield benchmarks for comparison, but also a playground for interaction, where at least some acute safety failures and harmful interaction dynamics can be discovered in silico before reaching the real world...

At Encultured, we believe advanced AI technology could be used to make the world a safer, happier, and healthier place to live. However, we also realize that AI poses an existential risk to humanity if not developed with adequate safety precautions and attention to the geopolitical consequences of deployment plans. Given this, our goal is to develop products and services that help humanity collectively to steer toward the benefits and away from the risks of advanced AI systems...