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Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence

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The Limits of Artificial Intelligence

If there was absolutely no way for this AI in the box to interact with the rest of the world, then maybe it would be completely inert. So at some point, you get a new box, but yeah, a really smart box. And you might, like, depending on your moral thoughts of you, you might care about what happens inside the box for its own sake. We give some interesting examples such as the super intelligence could hack into the financial system and bribe a real flesh and blood human to do some things that it would help it without even maybe the person's knowledge.

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