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Nick Bostrom: How AI will lead to tyranny
Nov 10, 2023
Leading expert in AI, Nick Bostrom, discusses existential risks, loss of faith in institutions, and the future of AI. Explores potential dangers of AI including tyranny and the challenge of aligning AI with human values.
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- Existential risks encompass potential premature endings to humanity, from extinction to totalitarian dystopias.
- Managing and aligning AI systems is crucial to ensure positive outcomes while continuing AI development.
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What is existential risk?
Existential risk refers to ways that the human story could end prematurely, including literal extinction or getting locked into suboptimal states like collapse or totalitarian dystopias.
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