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Chapter Eight. You Can't Fetch Coffee If You're Dead. What Governance Actually Needs to Do Safety isn't a feeling. It's a set of conditions that either exist or don't, can be verified or can't, and hold under pressure or fail exactly when they're needed. In 2009, a philosopher at Oxford named Nick Bostrom published a thought experiment that has become, depending on who you ask, either the most important idea in artificial intelligence safety or the most distracting one. Imagine, he said, a s