oxford university to ask all these questions to one of the most prominent thinkers in this field nick bostrom. it's really great to have you with us so you're a philosopher you're author who writes about what's going to happen to us basically possibly so one of the ideas that you put forward is this idea of vulnerable world right so correct me if i were wrong but if i get this correctly it's it's basically that humanity may come up with a technology that may do this to extension and therefore we would meet computer surveillance well that might be an oversimplification but the vulnerable world hypothesis. is the hypothesis does at some level of technological development it gets to be said to destroy 6 basic things so that by default one civilisation reaches the level of development. we'll get that a state that. a couple of different ways in which this could be true one maybe the easiest way to see is. if it just because. at some level of development even for a small group or individual to cause must destruction so imagine if nuclear weapons for example instead of. acquiring these rare difficul

and we're back with nick bostrom nick so you know a lot about a much more artificial intelligence much more than me do you think we can program artificial intelligence to be this benevolent platonic king of this i don't know in lightened monarch or anything that has to do. with control or total control is inevitably repressive and bad. well i mean i don't think we would know how to do that today i mean of course we can't even build ais that can do all the things that humans can today but if say next year somebody figured out a way to make ai's do all the jobs that humans can do like some big breakthrough i don't think we would know yet how also to align it with human values that is still a technical problem that people are working on since the last few years but with some significant way still to go. to getting methods for scalable ai controlled so that no matter how smart the becomes even maybe becomes far smarter than we one day because there isn't much of the way. you have is to become smarter than most i think eventually. and by that time you would want to also have the ability to

oxford university to ask all these questions to one of the most prominent thinkers in this field nick bostrom. nick.

oxford university to ask all these questions to one of the most prominent thinkers in this field nick bostrom. it's really great to have you with us so you're a philosopher or author who writes about what's going to happen to us basically possibly so one of the ideas that you put forward is this idea of a world right so correct me if i were wrong but if i get this correctly it's it's basically that humanity. they may come up with a technology that may do this to extension and therefore we would meet computer surveillance while that might be an oversimplification but the vulnerable world hypothesis. is the hypothesis that at some level of technological development it gets to be said to destroy 6 basic this so that by default one civilization reaches the level of development. will get that a stated. a couple of different ways in which this could be true one maybe the easiest way to see is. if it just becomes very easy at some level of development even for a small group or individual to.

in fact it was invented nick bostrom. >> why not reeves. >> all the smartest people and the ideas this it would-be possible in our lifetime and it certainly will, for us to build little software world for their characters in the world and those characters live as if the real. and said they have a program belief that the real characters. if you try to build it today, it would-be a basic version but certainly in 30 years, will be able to make little people who act like their live and as as the note they are. so if that's going to be possible in their lifetime, i mean, if think it's a one after, eventually it will happen, how many are we going to make. just one. no. the minute we can make a toll world that is like a real software simulation that thinks the real world, you make a bunch of them. how we know it has already happened. if it never happened, throw lots of them. and the people in them, think the real. so, the questions you would ask yourself to its dangerous because it would rip apart everything you believe, religions would fall apart etc. it would-be chaos. the me just put this