Nick Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.
But what if things go right?
Bostrom and Shermer discuss: An AI Utopia and Protopia • Trekonomics, post-scarcity economics • the hedonic treadmill and positional wealth values • colonizing the galaxy • The Fermi paradox: Where is everyone? • mind uploading and immortality • Google’s Gemini AI debacle • LLMs, ChatGPT, and beyond • How would we know if an AI system was sentient?
Nick Bostrom is a Professor at Oxford University, where he is the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute. Bostrom is the world’s most cited philosopher aged 50 or under.
The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblowers
Is the Government Hiding Aliens?
A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense.
Identity or Merit: What Matters More? (Heather Mac Donald)
Are We Risking Our Ability to Think?
Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku)
What Happened to Women’s Rights?
My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life
Could the American Economy Collapse Like Venezuela’s? (Mark Skousen)
Scams and Frauds: A Skeptic's Survival Guide
What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier?
How Can God Feel So Real?
Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?
346. Kennon Sheldon — What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Determinism
345. Matt Johnson — How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment
344. What is a Woman, Anyway?
343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies — John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Sasquatch Chronicles
The Confessionals
Radiolab
Sasquatch Odyssey
Science Friday