Episode · a16z Podcast · 2026-10-11
Books mentioned on Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?
Nick Bostrom joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to revisit the ideas about superintelligence and existential risk that he helped bring into the mainstream, now that increasingly capable AI systems actually exist.
Erik Torenberg discussed The Age of Em by Robin Hanson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Age of Em
The Age of Em by Robin Hanson is a speculative nonfiction book exploring a future where human minds are emulated on computers and rule the earth.
Discussed“Do you have any disagreements with Robin Hansen's age of M on this topic yeah I mean I guess the most obvious is that it doesn't look like we will be getting M's before we have super intelligence artificial super intelligence”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Superintelligence
“You may know him as the author of Superintelligence, of Deep Utopia, of a lot of work that coined or framed the ideas that we take for granted today in the discourse.”
Plugged Deep Utopia
“You may know him as the author of Superintelligence, of Deep Utopia, of a lot of work that coined or framed the ideas that we take for granted today in the discourse.”