UnHerd’s Flo Read meets Nick Bostrom.
In the last year, artificial intelligence has progressed from a science-fiction fantasy to an impending reality. We can see its power in everything from online gadgets to whispers of a new, “post-singularity” tech frontier — as well as in renewed fears of an AI takeover.
One intellectual who anticipated this decades ago is Nick Bostrom, a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford and director of its Future of Humanity Institute. He joined UnHerd’s Florence Read to discuss extinction, the risk of government surveillance and how to use AI for the benefit of humanity.
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00:00 – 01:01 Introduction
01:01 – 03:42 What does Nick Bostrom mean by existential risk?
03:42 – 05:30 Covid-19 and waning trust in global institutions
05:30 – 08:57 The evolution of AI
08:57- 10:46 Elon Musk’s Grok
10:46 – 13:39 Government interventions in AI
13:39 – 17:10 AI surveillance
17:10 – 18:40 Hyperrealistic propaganda, deep fakes and scepticism
18:40 – 21:15 AI’s agency beyond human intervention
21:15 – 27:06 The West’s liberal values and AI’s utilitarian bent
27:06 – 28:45 AI ethics and potential risks in warfare
28:45 – 34:45 How can we mitigate AI risks?
34:45 – 42:25 The upsides to AI
42:25 – 43:07 Concluding thoughts
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