Published On Apr 28, 2024
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Robinson's Podcast #205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher who was most recently Professor at Oxford University, where he served as the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He is best known for his book Superintelligence (Oxford, 2014), which covers the dangers of artificial intelligence. In this episode, Robinson and Nick discuss his more recent book, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Ideapress, 2024). More particularly, they discuss the alignment problem with artificial intelligence, the problem of utopia, how artificial intelligence—if it doesn’t make our world horrible—could make it wonderful, the future of technology, and how humans might adjust to a life without work.
Nick’s Website: https://nickbostrom.com
Deep Utopia: https://a.co/d/b8eHuhQ
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