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Bostrom's paperclip maximizer (2003)
Nick Bostrom shows how a harmless goal pursued by a super intelligence, like making paperclips, could still end in catastrophe.
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- 2003
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- Milestone
- Status
- Happened
- Era
- 2003
What happened
Nick Bostrom shows how a harmless goal pursued by a super intelligence, like making paperclips, could still end in catastrophe.
Why it matters
The example was a small part of a paper on the ethics of advanced machine intelligence, but it became the best known picture of a misaligned super intelligence: no malice, just a goal pursued without limits.
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