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Renowned philosopher Nick Bostrom, whose 2014 book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies outlined the existential risk to humanity such technology poses, recently told IBTimes UK that he believed it would be a “great tragedy” if advanced artificial intelligence is never developed.

“I think that the path to the best possible future goes through the creation of machine intelligence at some point,” Bostrom said.

“I think though it would be greatly desirable to put in some effort to solve the control problem, to figure out how to set up the initial conditions for this intelligence explosion in the best possible way to increase the odds that this big future will be saved according to human values.”