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MrMind

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Oh, so Bostrom was behind these three people? Then his book is more important than I thought.

I'm not saying that Bostrom was behind Stephen Hawking remarks but I think he's partly responsible for Musk and Gates positions.

When it comes to Musk I think there was a facebook post a while ago about FHI efforts in drafting Musk for the cause.

With Gates there's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBNKRYVY8g where Gates and Musk sit at a conferece for the Chinese elite and get interviewed by Baidu's CEO. As part of that Gates get asked for his take on AI risk and he says that he's concerned and people who want to delve deeper into the issue should read Bos... (read more)