Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-06-05
Books mentioned on What Will The Future Look Like? - Theo Priestley & Bronwyn Williams - #330
Theo Priestley and Bronwyn Jones are futurists, trend analysts and authors. The future is supposed to be ours to choose, but who is educated enough to tell us if we're going in the wrong direction?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Superintelligence
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is an influential examination of the potential risks and pathways associated with the emergence of artificial general intelligence surpassing human cognitive capabilities.
Discussed“I'm big into existential risk and if superintelligent AGI, a misaligned one, Stuart Russell's human compatible, he doesn't need to worry and Toby Ord, he doesn't need to worry at least for a little bit of his work and Nick Bostrom wrote Superintelligence basically just as a a fiction book for us all to have a look at.”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Future Starts Now
“None of this is fixed. The future starts, as the cover says, now.”