Nick Bostrom

This idea is not about employee share ownership like in the post-war decades in France, but rather the notion that capital will no longer need labor to generate wealth, and that it will therefore be necessary to redistribute this immense wealth throu...

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia...

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia...

once we have full AGI, super intelligence might be quite close on the heels of that.

[...] which, with the right economic policies, would inaugurate an age of abundance.

there could well be other systems now, or in the relatively near future, that would start to satisfy the criteria

the greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence,

Superintelligence could become extremely powerful and be able to shape the future according to its preferences. [...] If humanity had been sane and had our act together globally, the sensible course of action would be to postpone development of super...

The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. Such su...

The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. Such su...