Bostrom’s old warning returns: machine intelligence may be humanity’s last invention
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-08-04
The post quotes Nick Bostrom’s well-known line that machine intelligence may be “the last invention humanity will ever need to make,” and points to a 2015 talk about what happens when computers get smarter than humans.
It is essentially an AGI framing post: a reminder of the long-running argument about superhuman machine intelligence and its implications, not a new technical release or policy update.
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