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Welcome to Impact Theory, I’m Tom Bilyeu and in today’s episode, Nick Bostrom and I dive into the moral and societal implications of AI as it becomes increasingly advanced.
Nick Bostrom is a leading philosopher, author, and expert on AI here to discuss the future of AI, its challenges, and its profound impact on society, meaning, and our pursuit of happiness.
We touch on treating AI with moral consideration, the potential centralization of power, automation of critical sectors like police and military, and the creation of hyper-stimuli that could impact society profoundly.
We also discuss Nick’s book, Deep Utopia, and what the ideal human life will look like in a future dominated by advanced technology, AI, and biotechnology.
Our conversation navigates through pressing questions about AI aligning with human values, the catastrophic consequences of powerful AI systems, and the need for deeper philosophical and ethical considerations as AI continues to evolve.
Don’t miss your chance to explore these groundbreaking ideas, challenge your concept of human worth and values, and consider what the future holds for humanity and AI.
CHAPTER MARKERS:
[0:00] Utopian literature skepticism
[19:23] The dystopian future of AI bots
[43:52] Polarization by technology
[1:02:01] Neural technology & the organic brain
[1:26:00] How to avoid conflicts with AI
POWERFUL QUOTES FROM Nick Bostrom:
“Oftentimes people with these social visions, if they actually gained power to implement them, have created a trail of havoc and misery.”
“What would give us purpose in our lives if there’s nothing we need to do?”
“Some of the malaise in modern society might be from the absence of certain kinds of survival pressures or opportunities that were always there in our evolutionary past.”
“If it’s extremely slow and happens over many decades, then it might be kind of the boiling of the frog phenomenon, where people like are using this technology and of course every little increment makes it better.”
“Instead of having some guys who have to drive the garbage truck around the city every morning to collect the garbage, you could have a self-driving garbage truck with an optimus robot that tops off and picks up your garbage can and does all of that automatically.”
“You could imagine accelerating and have a thousand years of medical research progress in just a couple of years when you have these digital minds working on this, like, maybe unlocking cures for reverse the aging process, etcetera, and then forestalling a huge amount of human misery and death that is currently pretty unavoidable.”
“If you value upholding a tradition, there might be no other way of upholding it than actually by continuing for humans to do various things on their own, like setting up a population of robots that kind of enacted these past terminus or something might not count as continuing the tradition.”
“If even a mouse has a possible claim to sentience and at least some simple form of moral status, then AI systems that are roughly equivalent to a mouse in their sort of behavioral repertoire, I think, would also be prima facie candidates for moral status.”
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