Frank Lantz , the director of the New York University Game Lab , has created a simple web game based on futurist Nick Bostrom 's parable about the creation of superintelligent AI . Nick 's story shows what happens if we build a machine that 's smarter than us , then ask it to make paperclips . If we have not trained it with human ethics or values , it might make paperclips for ever , paving the earth and eventually the universe with paperclips , wiping out all other life in the process . Designed by Frank Lantz, director of the New York University Game Center, Paperclips might not be the sort of title you’d expect about a rampaging AI. In Luntz 's game , you are the machine . According to the Verge , it 's a lot of fun .
Frank Lantz , the director of the New York University Game Lab , has created a simple web game based on futurist Nick Bostrom 's parable about the creation of superintelligent AI . Nick 's story shows what happens if we build a machine that 's smarter than us , then ask it to make paperclips . If we have not trained it with human ethics or values , it might make paperclips for ever , paving the earth and eventually the universe with paperclips , wiping out all other life in the process . In Luntz 's game , you are the machine . According to the Verge , it 's a lot of fun .