Bostrom acknowledged that we’d need to find new sources of self-worth, but didn’t seem discouraged. Instead, he invoked Disneyland. “The job of the children there is to enjoy the whole thing, and Disneyland would be a rather sad place if it weren’t for the kids,” he said. “We would all be like kids in this giant Disneyland, maybe one that would be maintained and improved by our AI machine tools.”

