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Nick Bostrom
cited by eight posts · in two sources · first cited September 2026
In their words
“The core intuition underlying concerns about power-seeking is Bostrom (2012) ’s instrumental convergence thesis , which states that there are some subgoals that are instrumentally useful for achieving almost any final goal.”
· · machine-resolved
“Bostrom (2014) identifies a number of ‘convergent instrumental goals’, each of which promotes an agent’s power to achieve its objectives.28 These include:”
· Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI · machine-resolved