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205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia

205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia

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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

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

02:50 From AI Dystopia to AI Utopia

9:15 On Superintelligence and the Alignment Problem

17:48 The Problem of Utopia

21:14 What Are the Different Types of Utopia?

28:04 AI and the Purpose of Mathematics

38:59 What Technologies Can We Expect in an AI Utopia?

43:59 Philosophical Problems with Immortality

55:14 Are There Advanced Alien Civilizations Out There?

59:54 Why Don’t We Live in Utopia?

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and
everyone in-between.