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Matt Beane’s research reveals how AI automation is destroying the learning pathway for junior developers.

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Bostrom’s framework isn’t universally accepted. Here are the main objections and what they mean for our future.

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The control problem asks: how do we ensure that a superintelligent system does what we actually want, in all its nuance and contradiction?

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An AI that’s human-level can improve its own code. Each improvement makes it better at improving. The feedback loop accelerates.

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Bostrom maps out three primary routes to superintelligence, each with its own technical requirements and peculiar nightmares.