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The paper clip problem always seemed too absurd to me. Also known as the paper clip maximizer, this is the thought experiment by philosopher Nick Bostrom that imagines how a superintelligent AI with the goal of maximizing paper clip production could end up destroying the world by directing all available resources to making paper clips. While it would be irresponsible to say this is happening, we are starting to run low on some resources. And it’s about to affect your life. You may have heard about the global memory shortage caused, in part, by the rapid buildout of AI data centers....