Good luck saying LLMs are useful but still a net negative in the filter bubble this author is in. No, you also need to think it has zero utility or you're the enemy.
Good luck saying LLMs are useful but still a net negative in the filter bubble this author is in. No, you also need to think it has zero utility or you're the enemy.
Superintelligence 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...
has now brought out another book on the positives:
Deep Utopia 2024 https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/deep-utopia-life-and-meaning-in-...
I was just watching an interview with him:
Nick Bostrom Says We Are Clueless About What's Coming https://youtu.be/J9WBZ8BTLLg https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/opinion/interesting-times... - rattles on a bit
Apparently Yudkowsky was influenced by the 2014 book in coming up with his stuff.
Yudkowsky wrote about AI since the 1990s, his first realization of the AI danger was circa 2001, his "Sequences" were 2006-2009.
Bostrom also wrote much earlier about AI existential risk, see e.g. this paper of him from 2002: