Hello and welcome to. Involving at a cost make and Artificial Intelligence no longer just a hollywood dream as a path ahead of us a dangerous one will our lives be real while im here in the universities all this questions to one of the most prominent thinkers in this field nick bostrom. Its really great to have you with us a year a philosopher a year author who writes about whats going to happen to us basically possibly. So one of the ideas that you put forward is this idea of vulnerable world yes so correct me if i were wrong but if i get this correctly its its basically that humanity may come up with a technology that may do this to extension and therefore we would need computer surveillance while that might be an oversimplification but the vulnerable world hypothesis. Is the hypothesis that at some level of Technological Development it gets to be said to destroy 6 basic things so that by default one civilization reaches the level of development. Will get that a stated. And there are
Reaches the level of development. Well get that as stated. In a couple of different ways in which this could be true one maybe the easiest way to see is. If it just because theyre easy at some level of Development Even for a small group or individual to cause must destruction so imagine if Nuclear Weapons for example instead of requiring these rare difficult to obtain Raw Materials like plutonium or highly enriched uranium imagine if it had been an easy way to do it like baking signed in the microwave and you could have used the energy of that to. If that had turned out to be the way things are then maybe at that point civilization would have come to an end then. With surveillance from what i understand you cant really predict future nothing can mean you can survey people and watch what theyre doing but then they will be inventing things under surveillance but you wont know that. Its detrimental until something has gone wrong that that the fact of surveillance wouldnt really prevent we
Choice trump. Joins us as we try to find one of the to. Hello and welcome to. Technology involving at a cost make and Artificial Intelligence no longer just a hollywood dream as a path ahead of us a dangerous one will our lives still be a real while im here in Oxford University to ask all these questions to one of the most prominent bankers in this field nick bostrom. Nick. Its really great to have you with us youre a philosopher youre author who writes about whats going to happen to us basically possibly so one of the ideas that you put forward is this idea of vulnerable world yes so correct me if i were wrong but if i get this correctly its its basically that humanity may come up with a technology that may do this to extension and therefore we would need computer surveillance while that might be an oversimplification but the vulnerable world hypothesis. Is the hypothesis that at some level of Technological Development it gets to be said to destroy 6 basic things so that by default on
Gets to use it to destroy 6 basic things so that by default one civilization reaches the level of development. Will get the stated. There are a couple of different ways in which this could be true one maybe the easiest way to see is. If it just because very easy at some level of Development Even for a small group or individual to cause must destruction so imagine if Nuclear Weapons for example instead of requiring these rare difficult to obtain real materials like plutonium or highly enriched uranium imagine if it had been an easy way to do it like baking sand in the microwave and you could have used the energy of the atom and if that had turned out to be the way things are then maybe at that point civilization would have come to an end then. With surveillance from what i understand you cant really predict the future nothing can mean you can survey people and watch what theyre doing. Then they will be inventing things under surveillance but you want know that it is detrimental until so
Surveillance but you want know that it is detrimental and something has gone wrong that the fact of surveillance wouldnt really prevent well so if if one thinks that the world at some level of technology is vulnerable in this sense one can then obviously wants to ask well what could we possibly do in that situation to prevent the world from actually getting destroyed and it does look like insurgents in our us. Ubiquitous surveillance would be the only thing that could possibly prevent that. And now would even that work well i mean pads on the specifics of this narrow so youd have to think just how easy would it be to cause destruction would you just snap your finger or say like a magic world the world blows up well then maybe surveillance wouldnt suffice but suppose its something that takes several weeks and you have to you know do build something in your apartment and maybe require some skill you know at that point. You could imagine a very fine grained. Surveillance infrastructure ha