Philosophy and AI: What is the Future of Creativity?

The Jeff Bullas Show

Nick Bostrom is a Professor at Oxford University and the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute.

Nick is also the world’s most cited philosopher aged 50 or under. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement(2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a wrote a New York Times bestseller which sparked a global conversation about the future of AI.

‌His work has pioneered many of the ideas that frame current thinking about humanity’s future (such as the concept of an existential risk, the simulation argument, the vulnerable world hypothesis, the unilateralist’s curse, etc.), while some of his recent work concerns the moral status of digital minds.

‌He has been on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and was included in Prospect’s World Thinkers list.

‌He has just published a new book called “Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World.”

What you will learn

• Find out why Nick is spending time in seclusion in Portugal
• Nick shares the big ideas from his new book “Deep Utopia”, which dreams up a world perfectly fixed by AI
• Discover why Nick got hooked on AI way before the internet was a big deal and how those big future questions sparked his path
• What would happen to our jobs and hobbies if AI races ahead in the creative industries? Nick shares his thoughts
• Gain insights into whether AI is going to make our conversations better or just make it easier for people to push ads and political agendas
• Plus loads more!