Nick Bostrom
The a16z Show
Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?
- Published
- October 11, 2026
- Duration
- 53:56
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 18, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
Nick Bostrom joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to revisit the ideas about superintelligence and existential risk that he helped bring into the mainstream, now that increasingly capable AI systems actually exist.Nick discusses why reinforcement learning may be pushing models toward more goal-seeking behavior, what recent agent experiments tell us …
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Nick Bostrom joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to revisit the ideas about superintelligence and existential risk that he helped bring into the mainstream, now that increasingly capable AI systems actually exist.Nick discusses why reinforcement learning may be pushing models toward more goal-seeking behavior, what recent agent experiments tell us about instrumental convergence, and why he favors preserving the ability to slow frontier development rather than committing now to a broad or
Themes
- ai