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Nick Bostrom\\u2019s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.
But what if things go right?
Bostrom and Shermer discuss: An AI\\xa0Utopia and Protopia \\u2022 Trekonomics, post-scarcity economics \\u2022 the hedonic treadmill and positional wealth values \\u2022 colonizing the galaxy \\u2022 The Fermi paradox: Where is everyone? \\u2022 mind uploading and immortality \\u2022 Google\\u2019s Gemini AI debacle \\u2022 LLMs, ChatGPT, and beyond \\u2022 How would we know if an AI system was sentient?
Nick Bostrom is a Professor at Oxford University, where he is the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute. Bostrom is the world\\u2019s most cited philosopher aged 50 or under.
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