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Adam Becker says Nick Bostrom entered AI-risk discussions through reading Eliezer Yudkowsky and then convinced Toby Ord and Will McCaskill that AI risk was a highly important, overriding ethical concern.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“I mean, basically, Nick Bostrom read a bunch of Yudkowsky, got into the AI risk stuff from there and then started convincing people like Toby Ord and Will McCaskill that, yeah, this AI risk stuff is really important and is, you know, this overriding ethical concern.”Play from 53:09Report a misattribution
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