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The Source Code: Nick Bostrom

Molly Wood Oct 11, 2017
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Nick Bostrom. Courtesy of nickbostrom.com
Marketplace Tech Blogs

The Source Code: Nick Bostrom

Molly Wood Oct 11, 2017
Nick Bostrom. Courtesy of nickbostrom.com
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Machines are getting stronger and smarter. They may soon be our competitors and colleagues in the workforce. What would happen if we used them to enhance our own brains? Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood talks with Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, about what would happen if artificial and human intelligence meet.

You can listen to it in the audio player above, as part of “The Source Code.”

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