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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