Interesting Times: Nick Bostrom’s New Warning on AI, Risk, and Utopia

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Nick Bostrom, the philosopher behind modern superintelligence debates, explores the twin futures of AI: existential risk and a post-work utopia. In this condensed version of Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, the 52-minute episode is reduced to a quick listen that covers Bostrom’s views on AI alignment, governance, existential risk, and his skepticism about precise doom probabilities. You’ll also hear how his newer ideas in Deep Utopia imagine a “solved world” of digital-speed science, medical breakthroughs, virtual reality, and space colonies—and what humans might do when work is no longer necessary. Ross Douthat guides the conversation with Bostrom as they ask what remains meaningful in…