Max Tegmark and Nick Bostrom speak to the UN about the Threat of AI

Existential Threats  

At an event organized by the Permanent Mission of Georgia, in collaboration with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Max Tegmark and Nick Bostrom discussed existential threats to humanity, including that of artificial intelligence.

(The video, embedded is quite long, if you want to skip ahead, Max Tegmark's portion starts at 1:55:31 and Nick Bostrom at 2:14:48.)

Max Tegmark, known as "Mad Max" for his unorthodox ideas and passion for adventure, his scientific

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interests range from precision cosmology to the ultimate nature of reality, all explored in his new popular book Our Mathematical Universe. He is an MIT physics professor with more than two hundred technical papers and has featured in dozens of science documentaries. His work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine's "Breakthrough of the Year: 2003." He is founder (with Anthony Aguirre) of the Foundational Questions Institute.

Tegmark is also one of the co-founders of the Future of Life Institute.

Nick Bostrom is a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias, Global Catastrophic Risks, Human Enhancement, and, most recently, the book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. He is known for his pioneering work on existential risk, the simulation argument, anthropics, AI safety, and global consequentialism. He has received the Eugene R. Gannon Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement and been named One of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine.

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