Nick Bostrom on NYT podcast: what good AI future is worth risking
round · x · 2026-10-02
Nick Bostrom, whose thought experiments shaped today's AI doomsday discourse, joins the NYT's Interesting Times podcast as guest host Spencer Klavan's interviewee to discuss what a good version of the future looks like and which risks are worth taking to get there. The host found the exchange revealing and surprising; the poster adds that the hard part isn't imagining the future world but who we'll be in it.
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