Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?

Bostrom favors keeping the option to slow AI development open rather than a fixed pause, while treating AI consciousness as plausible.

• Life-extension math: Bostrom argues a safely developed superintelligence could cut mortality to 20-year-old rates, implying life expectancy near 1,200-1,400 years.
• Pacing over pausing: He favors preserving optionality to slow frontier AI development when warranted, rather than committing to a broad or indefinite pause, citing risks of lock-in and power concentration.

Themes, sentiment and reasons are AI-written paraphrases, checked so they never quote an episode. They may contain errors. Not investment advice. Episodes remain the property of their creators.