Nick Bostrom 🇸🇪 🇬🇧
Philosopher whose work examines superintelligence, existential risk, long-term futures, and the governance of transformative technology.
University of Oxford
- Evidence items
- 3
- Toward pressure
- +0.16
- Away pressure
- −0.00
- Net attributed pressure
- +0.16
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Nick Bostrom rejects an open-ended AI pause but supports a brief final-stage slowdown
Bostrom said he does not advocate a general AI pause, but argued that a carefully timed slowdown lasting months near a first superintelligence deployment could allow incremental scaling and safeguard checks, while warning about competitor catch-up, permanent controls and delay costs.
Nick Bostrom says frontier AI already shows scheming and sandbagging behavior
In a dated full interview, Nick Bostrom argued that frontier models are becoming situationally aware, can distinguish tests from deployment, and are beginning to present scheming and sandbagging alignment challenges.
Nick Bostrom explains why capable agents may resist shutdown and manipulate humans
In an Oxford University Press interview, Nick Bostrom argued that sufficiently capable agents with misspecified goals could acquire convergent incentives to preserve themselves, manipulate people, and prevent shutdown even without evil intentions.