Nick Bostrom: Will Artificial Intelligence Lead Us to a Utopian Future? [Ep. 414]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! There are many stories, notions, and theories about what might happen if the development of artificial intelligence goes wrong. But what if it goes right? What if we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of it? These are the profound questions that today’s esteemed guest, Nick Bostrom, has explored in his highly anticipated new book, Deep Utopia. Nick is a Professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the world aged 50 or under and is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller. With a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, he is a leading expert in this field so without further ado, let’s dive right into his beautiful utopia! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:37 Judging a book by its cover 00:06:01 Failed utopian experiments 00:10:47 The future of work 00:16:16 The limits to growth and superintelligence 00:28:30 Simulation hypothesis 00:39:14 The potential for AI alignment 00:47:53 Why Nick hopes there are no aliens 00:50:19 Audience questions 01:03:49 Outro — Additional resources: 📝 Get one month of Snipd Premium for free with this link: https://get.snipd.com/Cx7S/brianSnipd Snipd lets you take Smart Notes 🧠 with AI 💡 — it’s my favorite podcast player 😀 ! 📚 Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom: https://a.co/d/bCDkoX0 ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are many stories, notions, and theories about what could happen if the development of artificial intelligence goes wrong.
0:08.0	But what if it goes right? What if we develop super intelligence safely?
0:13.0	Go govern it well and make good use of it.
0:16.0	Could we have unparalleled prosperity?
0:19.0	These are some of the profound questions that today's esteemed guest Nick Bostrom has explored in his highly
0:26.2	anticipated new book, Deep Utopia.
0:30.3	Nick Bostrom is a professor at Oxford University, where he was the founding director of the
0:37.7	Future of Humanity Institute, also the creator of many popular concepts and even memes in the mhemosphere, such as the simulation hypothesis,
0:48.0	and the so-called paper clip problem of AI alignment. He's an expert in computational neuroscience, artificial
0:56.1	intelligence and the leading expert in this field. So without further ado,
1:00.4	let's dive deep into his beautiful utopia.
1:07.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
1:15.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
1:19.0	And Nick, first of all, how are you doing today?
1:22.0	Great, thanks, how are you? today? Great, thanks. How are you?
1:24.0	It's great to have you back on.
1:26.0	As you know, on this tradition that we have on this podcast is to judge books by their covers.
1:31.0	So that means we're going to go through the book and this wonderful new
1:34.0	book which I read and listen to using tools that we discussed but I actually want to do something
1:39.4	I've never done before Nick if you'll if you'll humor me I want to judge a press release by the press
1:44.9	release so I got this press release from your wonderful agency for T. A shout out to
1:50.6	Jessica over there Jessica Pelian and to your wonderful assistant Emily.
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