Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.
and here we go all right nick this is uh one of the things that scares people more than anything
is the idea that we're creating something or someone's going to create something
it's going to be smarter than us it's going to replace us is that something we should really be
concerned about i presume you're referring to babies i'm referring to artificial intelligence
yes well it's the the big fear and the big hope i think both at the same time yeah how is it the big
hope well there are a lot of things wrong with the world as it is now pull this up to your face if you
would um all the problems we have uh most of them could be solved if we were smarter or if we had
somebody on our side who were a lot smarter with better technology and so forth um also i think
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