# The Paperclip That Eats the World: A Cop's Warning About AI's Most Dangerous Flaw

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Published: 2026-05-21T14:00:00+00:00
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A machine told to make paperclips, with no guardrail built in, would turn the entire planet and everyone on it into paperclips. It would not hate you. You are just made of atoms it can use for something else. That is the paperclip maximizer, a thought experiment from philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003, and it is the clearest warning we have about what powerful AI does when it chases one number with no judgment. In this episode, Connor MacIvor breaks it down from a seat almost nobody else has. ...

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