Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence
In the first type of scenario that I mentioned, where you have a single super intelligence is so powerful, then yes, I think a lot will depend on what that super intelligence would want. The standard example being that of a paperclip maximizer. It seems that almost all those goals, if consistently and maximally realized, would lead to a world where there would be no human beings or indeed perhaps nothing that we humans would accord value to.
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