Is the AI apocalypse a religion in disguise?
In his talk “Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People,” Maciej Cegłowski takes apart the fear that a self-improving AI will bootstrap itself into a god and wipe out humanity — the Nick Bostrom, paperclip-maximizer scenario beloved in Silicon Valley.
He finds the whole thing “somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assum…
