You're listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who

had one point set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better at it.

Our questions for episode 108 are something like how might artificial minds differ from

ours and how can we keep them from killing us?

And we'll be here.

Discussing Nick Bostrom's 2014 book, Super Intelligence, Paths, Dangers and Strategies

with the author.

You can join the discussion by the book and get lots more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton-Mire speaking to you from Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Don Casey speaking to you from Middleton, Wisconsin.

This is Luke Mowhuser speaking with you guys from Berkeley, California.

Alright, so Nick Bostrom will be joining us in just a little while but since we have two guests,

we thought we'd do a little pre-show with Luke.

So Luke, I had heard of you because you did conversation from the pale blue dot, a very fine

podcast that was running about the same time that we started up but then you that

Peter Doubt and you decided to put your time into working predominantly on the problem

we're going to be talking about today, right?

Yeah, that's right.

I'm now the CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

And our primary focus is the subject of Nick's book on Super Intelligence which is how do

we get good outcomes from AI systems that are more clever and generally capable than humans

are.

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