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 — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Nick Bostrom has appeared on 7 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Odd Lots, Piers Morgan Uncensored, The Joe Rogan Experience. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Nick said
“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)
“What should I do tomorrow to make sure we survive this?”
— Nick Bostrom's chosen question for an oracle of absolute truth.
“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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“We got lucky — we got another warning shot.” That’s how AI safety expert Dr. Roman Jampolski described an incident in which OpenAI reportedly lost track of an advanced AI model for two days. The…
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…
The Urn of Inventions and the Hinge of History Nick Bostrom, the Oxford philosopher, asks us to imagine an enormous opaque urn sitting at the center of human history. Inside are millions of…
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…
In 1970, there were roughly three times as many wild animals on Earth as there are today. The 70 percent decline since then wasn't the result of a global war on wildlife. It was a side effect.…
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