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Nick Bostrom — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Nick Bostrom has appeared on 7 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Deep Questions with Cal Newport, Wendigoon, Prof G Markets. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Nick said
“I think that seems quite reasonable. I mean some people have even higher P dooms.”
— Nick Bostrom, on the 10% chance of catastrophe estimate.
“It is striking how these thoughts that used to be theoretical are now starting to take concrete shape.”
— Nick Bostrom, on the Hugging Face incident and the rise of AI deception.
“I am a fretful optimist.”
— Nick Bostrom, summarizing his worldview on the future of AI.
“I think we are sort of the stupidest possible species that are capable of developing advanced technology.”
— Nick Bostrom (63:25)
“All the diversity of human experience is like a tiny little corner in this space of possible modes of being. It's a huge cathedral and we've been basically sitting in the janitor's closet.”
— Nick Bostrom (73:41)
“Now is the golden age of purpose.”
— Nick Bostrom, reframing humanity's current struggle as a precious window where our actions genuinely matter.
Episode appearances
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In 2002, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky sat down across from another researcher and proved something unsettling: a sufficiently clever entity, confined to a text-only terminal, could talk its way…
In 2014, philosopher Nick Bostrom published Superintelligence, a book that argued the creation of a machine smarter than all of humanity combined could end in catastrophe. The book shaped the…
Nick Bostrom, the philosopher who wrote the 2014 book Superintelligence that helped launch the global conversation about AI risk, has spent the last several years thinking about the opposite…
Nick Bostrom, the philosopher who made "superintelligence" a household term, returned to the podcast to update a conversation that began years earlier. The topic had shifted. Instead of simulation…
In the early days of large language models, engineers discovered something strange: telling an AI system “this is very important” before giving it a task made its output measurably better. The…
The Intelligence Curse: Why AI’s Best Case May Be as Dangerous as Its Worst In a controlled simulation run by Anthropic, one of the industry’s most safety-conscious AI labs, a model was given…
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