Nick Bostrom: It would be a great tragedy if artificial superintelligence is never developed

Renowned philosopher Nick Bostrom believes it would be a "great tragedy" if human-level artificial intelligence (AI) is never developed, despite his previous warnings about the existential risk that such technology poses to humanity. Bostrom, who heads the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, gained worldwide attention last year with the release of his seminal work Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.

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