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Trump wants to redefine AI, but his ‘superintelligence’ already exists - and it has a sinister meaning
In 2014, a philosopher saw almost all of this coming and wrote a famous book about ‘superintelligence’. At the UN this week, Trump championed the term. It seems that he and his Silicon Valley friends are having some deeply concerning conversations, writes Holly Baxter
Twelve years ago, a philosopher wrote a book called Superintelligence. Nick Bostrom was talking about the possibility of an AI that exceeded human intelligence — not the kind that learns how to play chess and then outplays a human because it’s predic... [9575 chars]
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