Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom · first published 2014
Mentioned 38 time(s) by 19 guest(s): 6 recommend, 3 critical. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags
Benjamin Todd on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2026-05-26): mention
“…I think it was either 2015 or 2016 where we had the combination of OpenAI being founded, Superintelligence was recently released…”
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Helen Toner on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2025-11-05): mention
“…Bostrom, in Superintelligence, he talks about these superpowers, that the AI will have superpowers at all of these different things.…”
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Scott Alexander on Dwarkesh Podcast (2025-04-03): mention
“…if you look in Bostrom Superintelligence, there’s a discussion of Oracle AIs which are sort of like LLMs…”
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Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2025-03-11): mention
“…I was part of the seminars for Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence back in 2012, 2013.…”
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Benjamin Mann on Lenny's Podcast (2024-09-29): recommend
“…when I read Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom in around 2016, it really became real for me…”
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Joe Carlsmith on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-05-19): mention
“…There's a line in Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence about something like…”
Tom Davidson on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-05-05): recommend
“…At first I read Superintelligence and it kind of made sense to me…”
Richard Ngo on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-12-13): critique
“…none of the existing books on the alignment problem — including Bostrom’s Superintelligence, Russell’s Human Compatible…”
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Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-08-15): mention
“…namely Superintelligence — was maybe 100 times more impactful than I expected…”
Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-08-15): mention
“…Superintelligence has sold 200,000 copies. If you’d asked me how many copies I expected it to sell…”
Max Tegmark on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-07-01): mention
“…And Nick Bostrom’s book is full of examples of that.…”
Holden Karnofsky on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-08-19): mention
“…So a book like Superintelligence, it's about what could happen eventually.…”
Brian Christian on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-03-05): mention
“…we had for example Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, which was kind of pulling the fire alarm…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): mention
“…when Superintelligence came out, I think there actually weren’t that many sort of detailed, good faith critiques of it.…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): mention
“…much more substantive critiques of Superintelligence than most other people.…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): mention
“…that’s most prominently talked about in Superintelligence…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): mention
“…I think a lot of people I know who took an interest in AI risk took an interest in it because they read Superintelligence…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): recommend
“…I first became interested basically in the area by actually reading Superintelligence.…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): mention
“…there's a 10 page stretch in Superintelligence where Nick goes through a bunch of English language commands…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): critique
“…in the book Superintelligence that directly addresses the relative plausibility of something like the brain in a box scenario…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): critique
“…And for example, Superintelligence really doesn't discuss machine learning very much.…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): mention
“…Bostrom has this book “Superintelligence” that’s been quite influential.…”
Ben Garfinkel on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-07-09): recommend
“…Specifically reading Superintelligence is the first thing that got me into the area.…”
Danny Hernandez on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-05-22): recommend
“…convinced me to read Superintelligence a long time ago…”
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Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-01-24): critique
“…And then ‘Superintelligence’, of course not. It’s a thorough book.…”
David Chalmers on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2019-12-16): mention
“…I think for example in Nick Bostrom’s book he doesn’t put so much focus on the intelligence explosion…”
Miles Brundage on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2019-03-19): mention
“…some of the ideas in, for example, the book Superintelligence and more recently sort of more prosaic versions of these arms race concerns…”
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Brian Christian on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-11-22): mention
“…you have things like Nick Bostrom’s book, obviously, turning into what I think is this really remarkable technical research agenda…”
Catherine Olsson on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-11-02): mention
“…maybe you’ve read Superintelligence, whatever your first intro was…”
Katja Grace on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-08-21): recommend
“…The book Superintelligence goes in to various strategic considerations here and I think it's a good background…”
Allan Dafoe on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-05-18): mention
“…most notably with Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence, but also a lot of other scholars there…”
Allan Dafoe on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-05-18): mention
“…Superintelligence had a huge impact on the world’s awareness of the dangers of advanced AI…”
Allan Dafoe on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-05-18): mention
“…As has been discussed before, for example in Superintelligence, the possibility of highly recursive self-improvement…”
Allan Dafoe on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-05-18): mention
“…There are some pieces of work coming online, of course Superintelligence and Yudkowsky’s writings…”
Toby Ord on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2017-09-06): mention
“…I think Nick Bostrom has detailed this very well in his book Superintelligence, for anyone who’s interested…”
Miles Brundage on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2017-06-06): mention
“…the problem was with the book Superintelligence and various other publications…”
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Miles Brundage on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2017-06-06): recommend
“…the book Superintelligence was a big step forward on that front…”
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Miles Brundage on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2017-06-06): mention
“…it took the work of Nick Bostrom in Superintelligence and Stuart Russell in giving a lot of talks…”
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