What is Encultured's research agenda?
See Encultured AI: Building a Video Game.
Encultured is making a multiplayer online video game as a test environment for AI: an aligned AI should be able to play the game without ruining the fun or doing something obviously destructive like completely taking over the world, even if it has this capability. This seems roughly analogous to setting an AGI
Motivation: Andrew Critch is primarily concerned about a multipolar AI scenario in which there are multiple actors with comparably powerful AI, on the cusp of recursive self improvement
Self-improvement that leads to further self-improvement in a self-reinforcing feedback loop.