The philosopher Nick Bostrom was one of the first thinkers who mapped out the existential risk of AI. In his 2014 book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies he delved into scenarios — like the “paperclip maximizer” for instance — that showed the dangers that unfettered and highly intelligent AI posed to humans. A decade later, in Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, he looked at the other side of the AI coin, and theorizes what human experience might look like if AI is capable of solving all of our problems. What happens if AI and robots can literally do every single thing better than humans can? How would we find any meaning or satisfaction from life? On this episode, he speaks to us about the two divergent ways of understanding AI's future, what we might do, and what we can do right now to improve the chances that AI actually improves our lives. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open 00:01:22 - What If AI Solves All Our Problems? 00:05:07 - Guest Introduction: Nick Bostrom 00:07:14 - Two Books, Two AI Scenarios 00:09:34 - The Solved World Scenario 00:14:10 - Economic Distribution in Utopia 00:16:51 - Tone Shift Between Books 00:21:33 - Literary Elements and AI Culture 00:26:10 - Hugging Face Incident Analysis 00:32:05 - Safety Measures and Current Path 00:35:44 - AI Self-Preservation and Notes 00:37:51 - Why People Still Play Chess 00:39:50 - Work, Purpose, and Artificial Problems 00:44:50 - Mortality and Life Extension 00:49:13 - Future Trajectory Assessment 00:52:24 - AI Consciousness and Moral Status 00:57:41 - Final Thoughts Watch Bloomberg Vodcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0MS0Tqk_zQl1LVVTdWuH2Di Watch more Odd Lots episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0OJbRzA6nWybYiThLJd_ouz Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway analyze the weird patterns, the complex issues and the newest market crazes. Join the conversation every Monday and Thursday for interviews with the most interesting minds in finance, economics and markets. Join the conversation: discord.gg/oddlots Subscribe to Bloomberg Podcasts: https://bit.ly/BloombergPodcasts Check out more Odd Lots: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0MuA6M0zkZyy-99-qc87wKV Get the Odd Lots newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/oddlots And for all things Odd Lots, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots #Investing #Markets #Finance #Bloomberg #Podcast #OddLots Visit us: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts For coverage on news, markets and more: http://www.bloomberg.com/video Visit our other YouTube channels: Bloomberg Television: https://www.youtube.com/@markets Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/bloomberg