Who Governs AI? A Review of Karen Hao’s ‘Empire of AI’
The “paper clip problem” is a well‑known ethics thought experiment in the world of artificial intelligence. It imagines a superintelligent A.I. charged with the seemingly harmless goal of making as many paper clips as possible. Trouble is, as the philosopher Nick Bostrom put it in 2003, without common-sense limits it might transform “first all of
