Deconstructing Bostrom's Classic Argument for AI Doom

By Nora Belrose @ 2024-03-11T06:03 (+26)

This is a linkpost to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3dblxkLhY

I had a pretty great discussion with social psychologist and philosopher Lance Bush recently about the orthogonality thesis, which ended up turning into a broader analysis of Nick Bostrom's argument for AI doom as presented in Superintelligence, and some related issues.

While the video is intended for a general audience interested in philosophy, and assumes no background in AI or AI safety, in retrospect I think it was possibly the clearest and most rigorous interview or essay I've done on this topic. In particular I'm much more proud of this interview than I am of our recent Counting arguments provide no evidence for AI doom post.