Nick Bostrom dropped a bombshell that cuts through some of the haze around AI doom-and-gloom: “I think ultimately this transition to the superintelligence era is one we should do.” That’s right—should. Not “might” or “could,” but a firm nudge toward a future where humanity doesn’t just survive AI but thrives with it. Even more striking?…
In short: Satiable values have diminishing returns with more resources, while insatiable values always want more, potentially leading to risky AI behaviour – it seems likely that AI with insatiable values could make existential trades, like gambling the world for a chance to double resources. Therefore potentially design AI with satiable values to ensure stability,…
The interview has now been released! We covered a lot of stuff which at the time of writing hasn’t been covered elsewhere in detail. Super excited that I’ll be interviewing Nick Bostrom again in a few days – last time was in 2012 (on XRisks of AI and the Simulation Argument). This time we will…
“I argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future. That means that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood, i.e. of AI systems with their own interests and moral significance, is no longer an issue only for sci-fi or the distant…
Nick Bostrom addresses concerns about biased influence on the extrapolation base in his discussions on indirect normativity (IN – i.e., an approach where the AI deduces ideal values or states of affairs rather than running with current values and states of affairs) esp. coherent extrapolated volition (CEV) and value alignment in his magnum opus Superintelligence….
Do LLMs have metacognition? What happens when machines begin to “think about thinking”? At Future Day 2025, we hosted an in-depth discussion on metacognition in large language models (LLMs) – with insights from researcher Shun Yoshizawa, supervised by neuroscientist Dr Ken Mogi at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Together, we explored the current state of metacognitive…
A panel between James Hughes, James Newton-Thomas, Lev Lafayette and Adam Ford (chair) at Future Day 2025. Video of the panel – ‘AI Automation: Human Wage Crash Panel’: About If AI drives human wages to the ground, should everything else crash too? Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen envisions a future where AI-induced wage collapse leads to…
Back to basics. The “is” is what science and rationality tell us about the world and logic – and “ought” represents moral obligations, values, or prescriptions about how the world should be, rather than how it is. What is an “is”? The “is” refers to factual statements about the world, encompassing empirical observations, logical truths…
About Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming industries, yet discussions around AI safety oftenremain confined to research labs and policy circles. What happens when the next generation ofAI engineers and decision-makers lacks the knowledge to build AI systems that are safe, ethical,and aligned with human values? Despite the growing importance of AI safety – AI safety,…
🧠 AI consciousness: myth, reality, or an emergent inevitability? 🧠 What is the ontological relationship between the mind and brain? 🧠 Will EMs be conscious or will they be digital zombies? Future Day 2025 Panelists: Ken Mogi, Ben Goertzel & Robin Hanson Panelists discuss the philosophical question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) could ever achieve…
