Taking a deep dive into the famous paperclip maximizer problem and the future of AI and humanity.
In today’s column, I do some myth-breaking by examining a quite famous thought experiment in the AI field involving paperclips. I will go ahead and explain why paperclips have become a keystone in debates about what will happen when or if we attain artificial general intelligence (AGI) and/or artificial superintelligence (ASI).
I’ve added some new twists to the famed topic so that…
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2025/04/04/the-ai-paperclip-apocalypse-and-superintelligence-maximizing-us-out-of-existence/