{"id":134764,"date":"2022-01-27T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/what-happens-when-our-computers-get-smarter-than-we-are-nick-bostrom"},"modified":"2022-01-27T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:23:48","slug":"what-happens-when-our-computers-get-smarter-than-we-are-nick-bostrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/what-happens-when-our-computers-get-smarter-than-we-are-nick-bostrom","title":{"rendered":"What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnT1xgZgkpk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds \u2014 within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as \u201csmart\u201d as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: \u201cMachine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.\u201d A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we\u2019re building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values \u2014 or will they have values of their own?<\/p>\n<p>TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world\u2019s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design \u2014 plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.<br \/> Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow TED news on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews<\/a>.<br \/> Like TED on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds \u2014 within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as \u201csmart\u201d as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: \u201cMachine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.\u201d A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}