What will we do when all our jobs are done for us?

The philosopher Nick Bostrom speculates imaginatively about the travails of extreme leisure, but we don’t get any guru-like nuggets

From magazine issue: 22 June 2024

Nick Bostrom. [Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images]

issue 22 June 2024

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