#385 — AI Utopia

#385 — AI Utopia

Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about ongoing progress in artificial intelligence. They discuss the twin concerns about the failure of alignment and the failure to make progress, why smart people don't perceive the risk of superintelligent AI, the governance risk, path dependence and "knotty problems," the idea of a solved world, Keynes's predictions about human productivity, the uncanny valley of utopia, the replacement of human labor and other activities, meaning and purpose, digital isolation and plugging into something like the Matrix, pure hedonism, the asymmetry between pleasure and pain, increasingly subtle distinctions in experience, artificial purpose, altering human values at the level of the brain, ethical changes in the absence of extreme suffering, our cosmic endowment, longtermism, problems with consequentialism, the ethical conundrum of dealing with small probabilities of large outcomes, and other topics.

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#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

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#480 — The Economics of Everything

#480 — The Economics of Everything

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#479 — When Robots Take Over

#479 — When Robots Take Over

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#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

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#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

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26 Maj 21min

#476 — The Bittersweet Age

#476 — The Bittersweet Age

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20 Maj 22min

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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12 Maj 25min

#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

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