Nick Bostrom
👤 SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Moreover, there is no necessary connection between like how smart somebody is or how capable they are and how moral they are.
Moreover, there is no necessary connection between like how smart somebody is or how capable they are and how moral they are.
Like you have really capable evil people and really capable nice people and dumb people who are bad.
Like you have really capable evil people and really capable nice people and dumb people who are bad.
So you have a kind of...
So you have a kind of...
between capability and motivation, meaning you can combine them in pretty much any different way.
between capability and motivation, meaning you can combine them in pretty much any different way.
The same is true, but even more so, I think, with AIs that we might create.
The same is true, but even more so, I think, with AIs that we might create.
That said, I think there are some potential basins of convergence that if you start with
That said, I think there are some potential basins of convergence that if you start with
a fairly wide range of different possible AI systems as they become more sophisticated and are able to reflect on their own processes and their own goals.
a fairly wide range of different possible AI systems as they become more sophisticated and are able to reflect on their own processes and their own goals.
There are various resources that they might recognize as being useful instrumentally for a wide range of different goals.
There are various resources that they might recognize as being useful instrumentally for a wide range of different goals.
For example, having more power or influence is useful often, whether you're good or evil, because you could use it for whatever you're trying to achieve.
For example, having more power or influence is useful often, whether you're good or evil, because you could use it for whatever you're trying to achieve.
Similarly, not being shut off, that's analogous in the human case to being alive.
Similarly, not being shut off, that's analogous in the human case to being alive.