Corporations mindlessly pursue profit at all costs. Photo: Shutterstock.com
Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed a thought-experiment in 2003 about the dangers posed by Artificial General Intelligence.Let’s suppose that we design an Artificial Intelligence programme so that it pursues a goal, say, to make as many paperclips as possible. As long as the AI is sufficiently persistent, Bostrom states that “the AI will realise quickly...
