Key Points
Philosopher Nick Bostrom is surprisingly cheerful for someone who has spent so much time worrying about ways that humanity might destroy itself..
Bostrom has made it his lifes work to ponder far-off technological advancement and existential risks to humanity..
With the publication of his last book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, in 2014, Bostrom drew public attention to what was then a fringe ideathat AI would advance to a point where it might turn against and delete humanity...
Rather than play the doomy hits, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, considers a future in which humanity has successfully developed superintelligent machines but averted disaster..
A sophisticated reasoner with a conception of self as existing through time, stable preferences, maybe life goals and aspirations that it wants to achieve, and maybe it can form reciprocal relationships with humansif that were such a system I think that plausibly there would be ways of treating it that would be wrong...
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