Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0042  Abstract PurposeThe claim that super intelligent machines constitute a major existential risk was recently defended in Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and

AI & Society (2020) Abstract An intelligent machine surpassing human intelligence across a wide set of skills has been proposed as a possible existential catastrophe (i.e., an event comparable in val

in: AI & SOCIETY  AbstractAn intelligent machine surpassing human intelligence across a wide set of skills has been proposed as a possible existential catastrophe (i.e., an event comparable in valueproductivedesires, or desires that can direct behavior across multiple contexts. However, productive desires cannotsui generisbe derived from non-productive desires. Thus, even though general agency in AI could in principle be created by human agents, general agency cannot be spontaneously produced by a non-general AI agent through an endogenous process (i.e. self-improvement). In conclusion, we argue that a common AI scenario, where general agency suddenly emerges in a non-general agent AI, such as DeepMind’s superintelligent board game AI AlphaZero, is not plausible.

Lag eller näve? Intervju med Victor Lundberg och Johan A Lundin om SSU och en antifascistisk kamp

Historikerna Johan A Lundin och Victor Lundberg intervjuas av Gustaf Arrhenius och Erika Karlsson om sin artikel "Med ett våldsamt knytnävsslag och en välriktade spark? SSU och den nazistiska utmaning

This paper examines the Nordic Social Democratic parties’ own efforts to manage the inner and outer challenges of the so-called Nordic welfare model, i.e. how it is described, legitimized, and what ro

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2008. Futures 40(3), April, 203-217.

Alternative demographic scenarios for Sweden are used to illustrate how even very small variations in the assumptions of demographic projections lead to radically different future population structure

By analysing pension reforms in three Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland and Sweden that apply different institutional solutions in their old-age security programmes – the paper argues that the polit

Staffan I. Lindberg, Director, V-Dem Institute, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of GothenburgPrincipal Investigator, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), Wallenberg Academy Fellow, ERC Consolidator Grant