companies that hold “the whip that lashes us’—have net worths of $65 billion, $90 billion, $130 billion. High-profile individuals such as Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, Martin Rees, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and the late Stephen Hawking have issued dire warnings about AI, resulting in the ascendancy of well-funded institut

companies that hold “the whip that lashes us’—have net worths of $65 billion, $90 billion, $130 billion. High-profile individuals such as Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, Martin Rees, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and the late Stephen Hawking have issued dire warnings about AI, resulting in the ascendancy of well-funded institut

cial intelligence we might hope for, but with a rotweiler of a device, alive to the meaty smell of power, violence and greed. The Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom has described the following thought experiment: Imagine a super-intelligent machine, programmed to do whatever is needed make paperclips as fast as p

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eptually resilient and widely applicable than that they be easily listed on a website. The issues that arise here become quite subtle. For instance, Nick Bostrom [Bos3] has written: “In humans, with our complicated evolved mental ecology of state-dependent competing drives, desires, plans, and ideals, there is