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Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?

aired Oct 11, 2026 · 53.0m
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Summary

If we do develop this safely, then human life expectancy could go up hugely. If you imagine people having the same mortality rate as a 20-year-old, our life expectancy would maybe be 1,200, 1,400 years or so.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, sort, including: If you imagine people having the same mortality rate as a 20-year-old, our life expectancy would maybe be 1,200, 1,400 years or so.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Well, on that more specifically, to what extent do you think the Hugging Face incident, the Hugging Face agent swarm exhibited like true instrumental convergence in a way that's in
  2. 02well it's a combination i think there are sort of limited versions of instrumental convergence that we can observe there the idea of sort of even longer planning horizons and more
  3. 03Well, what's the optimal way, I guess, to test swarms in extremely human-like environments?
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